From d5592ae111d36b7b90ec3f90cd67ab914b24dc2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=A1nos=20Orcsik?= Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 20:42:32 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix typos --- README.md | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 2fa1b744..7928e50a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ ## What is Regular Expression? -> Regular expression is a group of characters or symbols which is used to find a specific pattern from a text. +> Regular expression is a group of characters or symbols which are used to find a specific pattern from a text. A regular expression is a pattern that is matched against a subject string from left to right. The word "Regular expression" is a mouthful, you will usually @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ regular expression `[0-9]{3}` means: Match exactly 3 digits. ## 2.5 Character Group -Character group is a group of sub-patterns that is written inside Parentheses `(...)`. +Character group is a group of subpatterns that is written inside Parentheses `(...)`. As we discussed before that in regular expression if we put a quantifier after a character then it will repeat the preceding character. But if we put quantifier after a character group then it repeats the whole character group. For example, @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ character. In regular expressions, we use anchors to check if the matching symbol is the starting symbol or ending symbol of the input string. Anchors are of two types: -First type is Caret `^` that check if the matching character is the start +First type is Caret `^` that checks if the matching character is the start character of the input and the second type is Dollar `$` that checks if matching character is the last character of the input string. @@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ the equal sign inside parentheses. For example, the regular expression `(T|t)he(?=\sfat)` means: optionally match lowercase letter `t` or uppercase letter `T`, followed by letter `h`, followed by letter `e`. In parentheses we define positive lookahead which tells regular expression engine to match `The` -or `the` which are followed by the word `fat`. +or `the` which is followed by the word `fat`. 
 "(T|t)he(?=\sfat)" => The fat cat sat on the mat.
@@ -516,10 +516,10 @@ the regular expression now it will find all matches in the input string, not jus
 
 The `m` modifier is used to perform a multi-line match. As we discussed earlier
 anchors `(^, $)` are used to check if pattern is the beginning of the input or
-end of the input string. But if we want that anchors works on each line we use
+end of the input string. But if we want that anchors work on each line we use
 `m` flag. For example, the regular expression `/at(.)?$/gm` means: lowercase
 character `a`, followed by lowercase character `t`, optionally anything except
-new line. And because of `m` flag now regular expression engine matches pattern
+new line. And because of `m` flag now regular expression engine matches the pattern
 at the end of each line in a string.