For a very long time, I've had a question about regular expression repeaters. What is the difference between
[xyz+]
and
[xyz]+
?
(or between [xyz?] and [xyz]? - or of course same question using * )
Is one wrong and the other correct, or do they have their own valid meaning?
Both are correct regular expressions, but only the latter treats the + character as quantifier.
[xyz+] matches a single character present in the given list (including the + character).
[xyz]+ matches between one and unlimited occurrences of the characters present in the given list.
An other way to get a detailled explanation:
Enter your regex in one of the online regex tester like
There you can enter some text and see immediately how your regular expression would match (or not) a part of your text.
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