Lesson 2

Matching Single Characters

In this lesson you’ll learn how to perform simple character matches of one or more characters.

Matching Literal Text

Ben is a regular expression. Because it is plain text, it may not look like a regular expression, but it is. Regular expressions can contain plain text (and may even contain only plain text). Admittedly, this is a total waste of regular expression processing, but it’s a good place to start.

So, here goes:

Text

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Hello, my name is Ben. Please visit
my website at http://www.forta.com/.

RegEx

Ben

Result

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Hello, my name is Ben. Please visit
my website at http://www.forta.com/.

Analysis

The regular expression used here is literal text and ...

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