Oct 1, 2012 · In Regex, . refers to any character, be it a number, an aplhabet character, or any other special character. * means zero or more times.

Javascript RegExp () allows you to specify a multi-line mode (m) which changes the behavior of ^ and $. ^ represents the start of the current line in multi-line mode, otherwise the start of the …

Repetition in regex by default is greedy: they try to match as many reps as possible, and when this doesn't work and they have to backtrack, they try to match one fewer rep at a time, until a …

How do I make an expression to match absolutely anything (including whitespaces)? Example: Regex: I bought _____ sheep. Matches: I bought sheep. I bought a sheep. I bought five …

By putting ^ at the beginning of your regex and $ at the end, you ensure that no other characters are allowed before or after your regex. For example, the regex [0-9] matches the strings "9" as …

Jan 2, 1999 · Parentheses in regular expressions define groups, which is why you need to escape the parentheses to match the literal characters. So to modify the groups just remove all of the …

Jul 5, 2009 · How do I use regular expressions in ANSI C? man regex.h does not provide that much help.

In regex in general, ^ is negation only at the beginning of a character class. Unless CMake is doing something really funky (to the point where calling their pattern matching language …

Feb 24, 2023 · For reference, from regular-expressions.info/dot.html: "JavaScript and VBScript do not have an option to make the dot match line break characters. In those languages, you can …

Oct 16, 2009 · Quick answer: ^[\w*]$ will match a string consisting of a single character, where that character is alphanumeric (letters, numbers) an underscore (_) or an asterisk (*). Details: …