Regex Special Characters: Reference for Metacharacters
Master regex special characters: dots, anchors, brackets, quantifiers, and escape sequences. Includes examples for every metacharacter.
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Regex Special Characters: Complete Reference for Metacharacters Every character in a regex is either a literal (matches itself) or a metacharacter (has special meaning). Metacharacters are what make regex powerful — and what make it confusing when you first encounter them. This is the complete reference. Test any of these examples at theproductguy.in/tools/regex-tester. --- The 14 Metacharacters These characters have special meaning in most regex flavors: Everything else is treated as a literal character. To match a metacharacter literally, escape it with a backslash. --- — Dot (Any Character) Matches any single character except a newline (). Common mistake: Using when you mean "any character including newline." By default doesn't match newline. Use the (dotAll) flag to change this:…
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