Greedy Operator Description : Basic Regular Expressions « Regular Expressions « Java

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3. Basic Regular Expressions

Greedy Operator Description

   

X?                        Matches X zero or one time

X*                        Matches X zero or more times

X+                        Matches X one or more times

X{n}                      Matches X exactly n times, where n is any number

X{n,}                     Matches X at least n times

X{n,m}                    Matches X at least n, but no more than m times

   
    
  

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