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//Regular Expressions List

//Short Tutorial 

\	// the escape character - used to find an instance of a metacharacter like a period, brackets, etc.
.	// match any character except newline
x	// match any instance of x
^x	// match any character except x
[x]	// match any instance of x in the bracketed range - [abxyz] will match any instance of a, b, x, y, or z
|	// an OR operator - [x|y] will match an instance of x or y