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Quick reference -> Quantifier -> Possessive quantifier #2145

Closed inxeoz closed 9 months ago

inxeoz commented 9 months ago

Bug Description

regex is misspelled like "\d++." but the regex tends to be "a*+"

Reproduction steps

change regex as it should shown "a*+"

Expected Outcome

i don't know too much about it.

Browser

microsoft edge Version 116.0.1938.81 (Official build) (64-bit)

OS

windows 11

working-name commented 9 months ago

Hi there,

Thank you for your feedback. That's not a typo, + means 1 or more times, and * means 0 or more times. It can also be something like {5,10} which means between 5 and 10 times. That's the quantifier.

The + following it is the possessive quantifier.