regular expression patterns for JQuery

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A reasonable introduction


^ - begin line
$ - end line
. - any char
* - zero or more of the prev char
+ - (atleast) one or more of the prev char
? - prev char zero or one time
{n} - match prev char n time exactly
{n,m} - at least n times but no more than m
[set] - one char out of the set. use - to indicate range
[^set] - negate the set of chars
\ - escape

(.+):(.+)