Lesson 2. Matching Single Characters

In this lesson you’ll learn how to perform simple character matches of one or more characters.

Matching Literal Text

Ben is a regular expression. Because it is plain text, it may not look like a regular expression, but it is. Regular expressions can contain plain text (and may even contain only plain text). Admittedly, this is a total waste of regular expression processing, but it’s a good place to start.

So, here goes:

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Hello, my name is Ben. Please visitmy website at http://www.forta.com/.

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Ben

Hello, my name is  ...

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