regular expressions examples typo fixes

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Patrick Njuguna 5 years ago committed by GitHub
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@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ Zero or many times. The pattern could may not occur or it can occur many times.
const pattern = /[a].*/g //. any character, + any character one or more times
const txt = 'Apple and banana are fruits'
const matches = re.match(pattern)
const matches = txt.match(pattern)
console.log(matches) // ['and banana are fruits']
@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ console.log(matches) // ['2019']
```js
const txt = 'This regular expression example was made in December 6, 2019.'
const regex_pattern = /\d{1, 4}/g // 1 to 4
const pattern = /\d{1,4}/g // 1 to 4
const matches = txt.match(pattern)
console.log(matches) // ['6', '2019']
```
@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ console.log(matches) // ['6', '2019']
const txt = 'This regular expression example was made in December 6, 2019.'
const pattern = /^This/ // ^ means starts with
const matches = txt.match(pattern)
console.log(matches) / ['This']
console.log(matches) // ['This']
```
- Negation
@ -405,12 +405,12 @@ console.log(matches) / ['This']
const txt = 'This regular expression example was made in December 6, 2019.'
const pattern = /[^A-Za-z,. ]+/g // ^ in set character means negation, not A to Z, not a to z, no space, no coma no period
const matches = txt.match(pattern)
console.log(matches) ["6", "2019"]
console.log(matches) // ["6", "2019"]
```
### Exact match
It should hav ^ starting and $ which is an end.
It should have ^ starting and $ which is an end.
```js
let pattern = /^[A-Z][a-z]{3,12}$/;

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