Master Regex Patterns

Arun Rajeevan
1 min readMay 17, 2020

understand syntax of regex patterns

Amazing blog to get started with:

https://www.rexegg.com/regex-quickstart.html

To search and replace a string with same string appended with some characters.

Put this regex ((.)+) in search box.

And in the replace box, put “$1”,

Example: Below is a file with following string

Node js
Java
C#
C++

Now you want to format this data into:
“Node js”,
“Java”,
“C#”,
“C++”

Replace multiple spaces by single space
Regex — \s\s+

Regex for matching an exact word
\b(go)\b

Ex: I wanted to match word go in my text.
Ex Javascript code:

let v = “dynamic value”;

let rgx = new RegExp(“\\b(“+v+”)\\b”,”gi”);

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