Quantified Character
Explore how to apply quantified characters in regular expressions to control the exact number or range of repetitions for matching text. Understand different quantified formats such as {min,max}, {min}, and {min,} to refine your regex patterns and solve complex matching challenges precisely.
Overview of quantified character
Let’s consider the problem we were working on in the previous lesson. You can re-write the RegEx as /\(\d+\)-\(\d+\)-\(\d+\)/. This way, the RegEx was shortened and much easier to understand. In this RegEx, it will have at least one occurrence of the number character set. However, this would match the five-digit number as well. How do we mention it a specific number of times? RegEx utilizes the quantified character to overcome this problem.