Character Class: Repeated Characters : Character Class « Regular Expression « Perl






Character Class: Repeated Characters

    

Metacharacter               What It Matches

x?                          Matches 0 or 1 x
x*                          Matches 0 or more occurrences of x
x+                          Matches 1 or more occurrences of x
(xyz)+                      Matches 1 or more patterns of xyz
x{m,n}                      Matches at least m occurrences of x and no more than n occurrences of x

   
    
    
    
  








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