Regular expression reference

Use this table, and the examples below, for reference when creating application exclusions:

Effect	Pattern	Example pattern	Example match
Start of a string	`^`	`^w+`	`Start` of a string
End of a string	`$`	`w+$`	End of a `string`
Case-insensitive match of following string	`(?i)`	`(?i)%0a`	`%0a` or `%0A`
A single character of: a, b or c	`[abc]`	`[abc]+`	`a` `bb` `ccc`
A character except: a, b or c	`[^abc]`	`[^abc]+`	`Anything`b`ut`abc`.`
A character in the range: a-z	`[a-z]`	`[a-z]+`	O`nly` `a`-`z`
A character not in the range: a-z	`[^a-z]`	`[^a-z]+`	`A`nythingbuta`-`z.
A character in the range of: a-z or A-Z	`[a-zA-Z]`	`[a-zA-Z]+`	`abc`123`DEF`
Any single character	`.`	`.+`	`abc`
Any whitespace character	`\s`	`\s`	anywhitespacecharacter
Any non-whitespace character	`\S`	`\S+`	`any` `non-whitespace`
Any digit	`\d`	`\d`	not `1` not `2`
Any non-digit	`\D`	`\D+`	`not` 1 `not` 2
Zero or one of a	`a?`	`ba?`	`ba` `b` a
Zero or more of a	`a*`	`ba*`	a `ba` `baa` aaa `ba` `b`
One or more of a	`a+`	`a+`	`a` `aa` `aaa` `aaaa` b`a`b b`aa`b
Exactly 3 of a	`a{3}`	`a{3}`	a aa `aaa` `aaa`a
3 or more of a	`a{3,}`	`a{3,}`	a aa `aaa` `aaaa` `aaaaaa`
Between 3 and 6 of a	`a{3,6}`	`a{3,6}`	a aa `aaa` `aaaa` `aaaaaa` aaaa
Period (dot) is a literal character	`.`	`a.b`	string`.`string

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