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groupingsquArE BraCkeTs&daShesI usually like to introduce just one character at atime. But these two are a little like salt and pepper. True, you canuse just salt or just pepper, but they get served together so oftenthat they are a set. And so we have both square brackets [ ] anddashes –With square brackets, you can make a simple list, like this: [aiu] .This is a list of items and includes three vowels only. Note: Unlesswe use other expressions to make this more complicated, only oneof them will work at a single time.So p[aiu]n will match pan, pin and pun. But it will not matchpain, because that would require us to use two items from the[aiu] list, and that is not allowed in this simple example.You can also use a dash to create a list of items, like this:[a-z] – all lower-case letters in the English alphabet[A-Z] – all upper-case letters in the English Alphabetpt. 1[a-zA-Z0-9] – all lower-case and upper-case letters, and digits.(Notice they are not separated by commas.)Dashes are one way of creating a list of items quickly, as you cansee above.[-]a D va N Ced tI pCharacters that are usually special, like $ and ?, no longer arespecial inside of square brackets. The exceptions are the dash,the caret (more on this one later) and the backslash, which stillworks like all backslashes do inside the square brackets.12
SquArE bRacKeTs dAsheS&pt. 2Here is an example of how you might use square brackets bythemselves. Let’s say you have a product group, sneakers,and each product name has a number appended to it in theURL (we see this a lot with industrial products where theydon’t have zippy names). So you might have sneakers450,sneakers101, etc.The product manager for sneakers450 throughsneakers458 wants a special profile of visits that onlyincluded his product pages. So you might include a filterlike the one below, which makes it easy to include all theproduct names, using square brackets:13
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