Text Pattern

Expression

Any character

. (period)

Any of the values separated by vertical bars within parentheses: the vertical bar represents "or"

(this\that\other)

Any word character {a-z,A-Z, 0-9}

\w

Any non-word character

\W

Any digit {0-9}

\d

Any non-digit

\D

Any white space {spaces and/or tabs and/or carriage returns}

\s

Any non-white space

\S

Any punctuation character

\p

Any non-punctuation character

\P