Anchors anchor a pattern to the beginning (^) or end ($) of a line


opening = "This is a test. \nThis is a test. \n"

puts opening.grep(/^this is/)
puts opening.grep(/this is,$/)

1.	Regular Expressions
2.	match the first line just by using a word in the pattern
3.	a pair of square brackets ([]) matches any character in the brackets
4.	match alternate forms of a pattern using the pipe character (\|)
5.	Grouping uses parentheses to group a subexpression, like this one that contains an alternation
6.	\d represents a digit; it is the same as using [0-9].
7.	Similar to $, the shortcut \z matches the end of a string, not a line
8.	Find out the phone number
9.	? is a repetition operator
10.	The plus sign (+) operator indicates one or more of the previous pattern
11.	Braces ({}) specifies the exact number of digits, such as \d{3} or \d{4}

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