Tutorial by Examples

It's best for readability (and your sanity) to avoid escaping the escapes. That's where raw strings literals come in. (Note that some languages allow delimiters, which are preferred over strings usually. But that's another section.) They usually work the same way as this answer describes: [A] ba...

In most programming languages, in order to have a backslash in a string generated from a string literal, each backslash must be doubled in the string literal. Otherwise, it will be interpreted as an escape for the next character. Unfortunately, any backslash required by the regex must be a literal ...

Character escaping is what allows certain characters (reserved by the regex engine for manipulating searches) to be literally searched for and found in the input string. Escaping depends on context, therefore this example does not cover string or delimiter escaping. Backslashes Saying that backsla...

Many languages allow regex to be enclosed or delimited between a couple of specific characters, usually the forward slash /. Delimiters have an impact on escaping: if the delimiter is / and the regex needs to look for / literals, then the forward slash must be escaped before it can be a literal (\/...