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In PHP Form Validation - Introduction to Regular Expressions - Groupings - Page 8 I am getting the correct regex, but the key is not appearing in the browser, and so I am no able to move on in this exercise, as I’m missing this particular key.
I’ll include a screenshot in case I’m missing something blatantly obvious…
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As you can see from my screenshot, the issue was not getting the correct side to light up green. The problem I had was that the key was not appearing at all. Even when I lit them all up in green, and no matter how I achieved it. I ended up reporting it as a bug as I tried numerous ways of lighting them up green, with no key appearing at any time.
It may well be that the system is checking your proposed solution against some strings which are not being shown on screen.
Your proposed solution will match the strings "puppies are my favorite!" and "kitty cats are my favorite!", but it will also match the strings "monkeys are my favorite!" and "black bars are my favorite!". It is possible that behind the scenes, the system is checking whether your proposed solution successfully matches the specified strings and doesn’t match ALL other strings.
It showed the hidden key when I typed the following:
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