How to match “any character” in regular expression?

Yes, you can. That should work.

  • . = any char except newline
  • \. = the actual dot character
  • .? = .{0,1} = match any char except newline zero or one times
  • .* = .{0,} = match any char except newline zero or more times
  • .+ = .{1,} = match any char except newline one or more times

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