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Learn Some Regular Expression

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Regular expressions use a small set of special characters to describe text patterns. This article covers the wildcard and the operators used to control how many times a pattern may appear.

Counting and Wildcards

RegexMatch
*zero or more occurrences of the previous char or expression
+one or more occurrences of the previous char or expression
?zero or one occurrence of the previous char or expression
{n}exactly n occurrences of the previous char or expression
.any single char
.*any string of zero or more chars

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