Regular Expression Syntax*
Characters used to create
Matches any single character except newline ("\n")
Matches zero or more copies of the preceding expression
Matches any characters within the brackets
Matches the beginning of a line
Matches the end of a line
Indicates how many times the previous pattern is allowed to match
Used to escape metacharacters
Matches one or more copies of the preceding expression
Matches zero or one of the preceding expression
Matches either the preceding regular expression or the following
Interprets everything within the quotation marks literally
Groups a series of regular expressions together into a new reg. exp
* "lex & yacc" by Levine, Mason, and Brown