RegEx Series: Special Characters (Part 1)

special & meta characters

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Introduction

I have introduced ranges in this post which is a great and efficient way to go about writing out for example matches that are within a span of consecutive characters rather than having to manually write each one of them out. In this post, I will be mentioning another great feature of regex that are called metacharacters.

Metacharacters in regular expressions help match characters based on what catergories they may fit into. For example, \d will…

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