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		radiojosh on Dec 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The weirdest bug I've seen yet That was a great read, but there was one thing I didn't understand: Why would the regex string have "." twice in a row? What does ".." find that "." doesn't find? Does that just mean "at least two characters"?

rjbwork on Dec 1, 2023 | [–]

It means specifically 2 characters, and is equivalent to .{2}

..+ or ...* are ways of writing "at least two characters".

bn-usd-mistake on Dec 1, 2023 | [–]

A single `.` matches exactly one character. `..` matches exactly two characters (not more, not less).

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