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Quantifiers

Quantifiers are those characters in the pattern, that specify how many characters to match. Or they "quantify" the the characters to match.

• * Quantifier: Match 0 or more characters (match any number of characters)
• ? Quantifier: Match 0 or 1 characters
• {min,max} Quantifier: Match (between min and max) characters
• {specific} Quantifier: Match (specific) number of characters

Taking a few examples

Taking a few realtime matching cases of the last examples

You can see in the last match, result is TRUE. This is becasue, we didn't specify where to match the pattern, so the pattern is matched in anywhere in the subject. And if you don't specify the location, it doesn't matter where the match is found.

However, if were to take the above example, with a slight change, and specify the location, interesting results come out. Lets see:

As you can see, in the last match, result is False. To understand it, read the explaination carefully. At the end of the subject match "a", followed by 2, 3 or 4 characters. In simple terms we can say it again as "match a string which has third, fourth or fifth character from the end is a"

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