FAQ: Introduction to Regular Expressions - Wild for Wildcards

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I can’t figure out what is required

. . . .
…!
. . . . !

. . . .\

None of them works :man_shrugging:

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found it :slight_smile:
(tricky Codecademy :smiling_imp:)

this will help ,

We can use the escape character, \ , to escape the wildcard functionality of the . and match an actual period. The regex Howler monkeys are really lazy\. will completely match the text Howler monkeys are really lazy. .

Here’s what i came up with

[^mks]….

^ will ignore mks

Here is what worked for me.

Hope that helped!

[^mks]* is checking off the first three words and not the second 3 but I am not getting the code to continue. Why not?

We can also use [.] in place of \.

Hi guys,
After trying some things, this works for me:


this work for me

Hi, a bit irrelevent questions here, what I can do to match " /. " then? Do I use “//.”?

What I don;t understand is that I type the the “hidden key” in my browser - which is “wildcards” - but acc to the system it’s wrong and should be “journeys” which I don’t see anywhere. Bug?