#Regex caret symbol plus#

#Regex caret symbol plus#

The plus symbol is just like a star symbol with the exception that it matches 1 or more occurrences of the specified pattern or character. Main will have no match as a is not followed by n and there is i in between. For example, ma*n means that search m and a character in a string. The star symbol matches 0 or more occurrences of the specified pattern or character present left from the star symbol in a string. For example, a$ means that whatever string we are matching with should have a at the end, that is amnesia will be matched with a$ however heart will not. The $ symbol is used wherever we want to check whether a string ends with a certain character or not. For example specifies that except a,b, or c any character present will be matched. The Caret symbol within square brackets is used to take the complement of specified characters. ^a matches with abc however ^a does not match with bac. The Caret symbol is used to check whether a specified text or string starts with a certain character or not e.g. We can also specify a range for example is the same as or is the same as.

For example matches the a, b, and c characters with a specified string.

Whatever we write in the square brackets will be matched with a given string.