Jun 1, 2017 · Specifically when does ^ mean "match start" and when does it mean "not the following" in regular expressions? From the Wikipedia article and other references, I've …

Dec 8, 2018 · The regex compiles fine, and there are already JUnit tests that show how it works. It's just that I'm a bit confused about why the first question mark and colon are there.

Be aware that the first ^ in this answer gives the regex a completely different meaning: It makes the regular expression look only for matches starting from the beginning of the string.

In case it is JS it indicates the start and end of the regex, like quotes for strings. stackoverflow.com/questions/15661969/…

Repetition in regex by default is greedy: they try to match as many reps as possible, and when this doesn't work and they have to backtrack, they try to match one fewer rep at a time, until a …

Apr 7, 2011 · @VaradBhatnagar You would need to escape the ? character in your regular expression. As an example in Clojure, if you wanted to match the string foo?, you could use …

Oct 3, 2010 · Now, when the regex engine tries to match against aaaaaaaab, the .* will again consume the entire string. However, since the engine will have reached the end of the string …

By putting ^ at the beginning of your regex and $ at the end, you ensure that no other characters are allowed before or after your regex. For example, the regex [0-9] matches the strings "9" as …

I now try to match the string given by the user with the following, automatically created, regex expression: ^(part1|part2)$ This only returns answer 1 and 2 as correct while answer 3 would …

Nov 13, 2021 · How do I create a regular expression to match a word at the beginning of a string? We are looking to match stop at the beginning of a string and anything can follow it. For …