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07. Metacharacters - The Character Class

  • A character class is a way of matching any one of several literal characters.
  • A character class is defined by enclosing some literal characters inside square brackets.
  • For example, the regular expression:
      [ea]
            
    is a regex consisting of a single character class that will match either a single "e" or a single "a".

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Andrew Hill

For LinuxSA Meeting, 21 November 2000