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Student ID: 22127005

Full name: Lê Thiên Ân

Basic regular expression


A regular expression (regex) is a sequence of characters that defines a search pattern, commonly
used for string matching and manipulation.
Basic characters: abc… ABC… 0123… and “_”.
1. “.”: every single character (A-Z, a-z, 0-9, _, space, ~, !, …). Thus, a single dot (.) will be
presented by “\.”.
Example: abc, 123xyz, …
2. [abc]: only acept a specific single character of a or b or c.
Example: alien, bat, cat, …
3. [^abc]: accept every character except a and b and c. It is the oposite of [abc].
Example: dog, fish, …
4. [A-Z], [a-z], [0-9]: character ranges. It will match the character in range from A to Z, a to
z or 0 to 9 (case-sensitive).
5. “\w”: [A-Za-z0-9_]
Example: “\w” will match Abc, 1234, _hello, …
6. {n, m}: repeat at least n times and maximum m times. The m can be left with a blank to
indicate that it can repeat infinite times. We can also keep the n only {n}, which means
the sequence must repeat exactly n times.
Example: “Hi{1, 4}” matches Hi, Hii, Hiii, Hiiii. “Hi{3}” only matches Hiii.

7. *: from 0 to ∞repetitions. The character before the “*” can repeat 0 or more times.

Example: \d* will match a string containing a number like 123, 2024, …

8. +: from 1 to ∞ repetitions. The character before the “+” must repeat at least 1 time.

Example: “Hi*” will match Hi, Hii, Hiii, ….


9. ?: optional character. The character before “?” can exist or not.
Example: “ab?c” with match whether abc or ac since the “b” is optional.
10. \s: any whitespace (space “ ”, tab \t, newline \n).
Other components:
Starts with ^ and ends with $, capture group with (…), and or “|” operator.
\W, \D, \S are the oposite of \w, \d, \s.
Reference: https://regexone.com/

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