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Learn some shortcut characters for some common character sets.
Practice
Copy both the Match and the Exclude set of test strings from each exercise below into regex101. Using what you've learned so far, create a regular expression that will match all of the strings in the Match set and exclude the ones in the Exclude set.
1 )
Match:
7849
3472
8901
70502
23470
90496
Exclude:
abcde
ABCDE
2 )
Match:
1 a
2 a
3 a
4 a
5 a
8 a
9 b
Exclude:
4 c
4 E
3 )
Match:
8345 Gable
7238 Gable
2349 Table
8475 Cable
0994 Fable
1047 Zable
Exclude:
5633 gable
jklh 3able
4 )
Match:
bat
cat
data
eat
fast
12_6
Exclude:
$%#$@
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