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Character classes have some shortcut equivalents. These are called metacharacters. Here are some popular ones:
. ~> match any character but not a new line\w ~> [a-zA-Z0-9_]\W ~>[^a-zA-Z0-9_]\d ~> [0-9]\D ~> [^0-9]\t ~> tab!\n ~> line break\s ~> any white space (Tab, line break)\ ~> white space
You’ve already seen some characters like <strong>[ ]</strong> that have special meaning. To use it’s literal equivalent you need to ‘escape’ that character. To do that you put a slash \ in front.
Example: literal square brackets = \[
\w Example
\d Example
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