Symbol | Character | Meaning |
^ | Caret | Matches the beginning of the input string. When used at the beginning of a string of characters, it negates a pattern match. |
$ | Dollar sign | Matches the end of the input string. |
. | Period | Matches a single character (including white spaces). |
* | Asterisk | Matches none or more sequences of a pattern. |
+ | Plus sign | Matches one or more sequences of a pattern. |
? | Question mark | Matches none or one occurrence of a pattern. |
_ | Underscore | Matches spaces, commas, braces, parenthesis, or the beginning and end of an input string. |
[] | Brackets | A range of single-characters. |
- | Hyphen | Separates the end points of a range. |