Re: Correct syntax for pathological re.search()

Gilmeh Serda <gilmeh.serda@nothing.here.invalid> wrote or quoted:

You don't need to escape the curly braces.

  Here's the 411 on some gnarly regex characters:

. matches any single character, except when it hits a new line
^ kicks things off at the start of the sequence
$ wraps it up at the end
* goes zero to infinity
+ one or more times
? maybe once, maybe not
{ starts a specific count, like {2} or {2,3}
} ends such a count
| either this or that
\ flips the script on the next character's meaning
( drops in on a group
) bails out of the group
[ paddles out to a character class
] rides the character class to shore

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