Regular Expression Examples
Regexp |
| Matches |
abc |
| the string of letters "abc"
E.g. abc |
a.c |
| strings of letters containing 'a' followed by 'c'
with any single character in between
E.g. abc, aac, acc, aXc, a2c, ... |
ab*c |
| strings of letters containing 'a' followed by 'c'
with any number of 'b' letters in between
E.g. ac, abc, abbc, abbbc, ... |
a|the |
| either the string "a" or the string "the"
E.g. a, an, bad, the, then, other, ... |
[a-z] |
| any single lower-case letter
E.g. a, b, c, ... z |
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