Regexp Cheatsheat
Regular Experessions (regexp) are very common and powerful text pattern matching functions found in most programming languages nowadays

Online experimenting

Here is an amazingly useful online tool to experiment with Regexps: Rubular

Top Regexp expressions

\[abc\]   A single character of: a, b, or c
\[^abc\]  Any single character except: a, b, or c
\[a-z\]   Any single character in the range a-z
\[a-zA-Z\]    Any single character in the range a-z or A-Z
^   Start of line
$   End of line
\A  Start of string
\z  End of string
.   Any single character
\s  Any whitespace character
\S  Any non-whitespace character
\d  Any digit
\D  Any non-digit
\w  Any word character (letter, number, underscore)
\W  Any non-word character
\b  Any word boundary
(...)   Capture everything enclosed
(a|b)   a or b
a?  Zero or one of a
a*  Zero or more of a
a+  One or more of a
a{3}    Exactly 3 of a
a{3,}   3 or more of a
a{3,6}  Between 3 and 6 of a