*) they mean “any symbol any number of times.” You can use it, for example, to find matches starting with or ending in some text. means “any character” and * means “anything before this symbol repeated any number of times.” Together (. But if you want to search for the dot symbol, you need to escape it with \, so this RegEx will only match the exact text "b.t": b\.t 2). matches any character: b.tĪbove RegEx matches "bot”, "bat” and any other word of three characters which starts with b and ends in t. Here is how you do this in VS Code: You need to enable RegEx by checking this option 1). Also, note that you usually need to turn on RegEx somewhere near the search input.
While almost any text editor supports Regular Expressions now, I will use Visual Studio Code for this tutorial, but you can use any editor you like. Always wanted to learn Regular Expressions but got put off by their complexity? In this article, I will show you five easy-to-learn RegEx tricks which you can start using immediately in your favorite text editor.
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