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Visualize Regular Expression and Practice

REACTION

REMEMBER
  • Avoid \(.*\+\)
      ⚠️ Can cause catastrophic backtracking. Use lazy quantifiers (e.g., `.+?` instead of `.+`).
  • Avoid (a|b|c|d)
      ⚠️ Consider using a character class `[abcd]` instead of `(a|b|c|d)`, which is more efficient.
REFERENCE
  • \d
      Matches any digit (0-9)
  • \w
      Matches any word character (letters, digits, underscores)
  • \s
      Matches any whitespace character (spaces, tabs, newlines)
  • \b
      Matches a word boundary
  • .
      Matches any character except a newline
  • \*
      Matches 0 or more of the preceding character
  • \+
      Matches 1 or more of the preceding character
  • \?
      Matches 0 or 1 of the preceding character
  • \|
      Acts as OR between patterns
  • \[.*?\]
      Matches a character set
  • \(.*?\)
      Groups characters together
  • {\d+,?\d*}
      Specifies a range of repetitions