Regex - notes

How to match “any character” in the regular expression

  • . → any char except newline
  • \. → the actual dot character
  • .? = .{0,1} → match any char except newline zero or one times
  • .* = .{0,} → match any char except newline zero or more times
  • .+ = .{1,} → match any char except newline one or more times