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===== Regular expression metacharacters =====

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    <tr>
      <td>Metacharacter</td>
      <td>Purpose</td>
      <td>Example</td>
      <td>Result</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>^</td>
      <td>begining of line anchor</td>
      <td>'^pattern'</td>
      <td>matches all lines beginning with pattern</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>$</td>
      <td>end of line anchor</td>
      <td>'pattern$'</td>
      <td>matches all lines ending with pattern</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>.</td>
      <td>matches one character</td>
      <td>'p.....n'</td>
      <td>matches lines containing a "p", followed by five
characters, and followed by an "n"</td>
    </tr>
<tr>
      <td>*</td>
      <td>matches the preceding item zero or more times</td>
      <td>'[a-z]*'</td>
      <td>matches lowercase alphabet characters only</td>
</tr>
<tr>
      <td>[ ]</td>
      <td>matches one character in a pattern</td>
      <td>'[Pp]attern'</td>
      <td>matches lines containing Pattern or pattern</td>
</tr>
<tr>
      <td>[^]</td>
      <td>matches one character not in the pattern</td>
      <td>'[^a-m]attern'</td>
      <td>matches lines that do not contain a-m and followed by attern</td>
</tr>
</table>

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