Regular Expressions (Special Characters)
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Name Character Meaning
Period . Matches any single character.
Caret ^ Matches text at the beginning of a line.
Dollar sign $ Matches text at the end of a line. The
dollar sign must appear at the end of
the text.
Asterisk * Matches zero or more repetitions of the
character preceding the asterisk.
Brackets [ ] Matches sets of the characters specified
within the brackets.
Caret ^ Matches any character except those
specified within the brackets. It must
be the first character within the
brackets.
Dash - Matches characters in the ASCII order
between the characters on either side,
inclusive.
Backslash \ Following character is treated literally.
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