? is a repetition operator : grep « String « Ruby






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? is a repetition operator


It indicates zero or one occurrence of the previous pattern.

color = "color colour"

color.grep(/colou?r/)








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1.Regular Expressions
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4.match alternate forms of a pattern using the pipe character (|)
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6.Anchors anchor a pattern to the beginning (^) or end ($) of a line
7.\d represents a digit; it is the same as using [0-9].
8.Similar to $, the shortcut \z matches the end of a string, not a line
9.Find out the phone number
10.The plus sign (+) operator indicates one or more of the previous pattern
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