Question

What are the main types of regex quantifiers used in Selenium Webdriver?

Answer 1

Hi Andrew, some of the regex quantifiers used in Selenium Webdriver are:

1. * : “match anything”

2. [ ] : “match any single character found inside the square brackets”

3. [aeiou] : "matches any lowercase vowel"

4. [0-9]: "matches any digit"

5. [a-zA-Z0-9] : "matches any alphanumeric character "

Comments

Where exactly can we use these regex quantifiers? And why should we use it??

Just being a little curious here bcaz i'm learning Selenium....

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Hi Parag, regex quantifiers are basically used to describe a special character or dynamic texts or to locate the web elements like partially matching a keyword in the web element's name or link. For eg. 

\b[0-9]{5}(?:-[0-9]{4})?\b

The above regular expression matches 5 digit zip codes.