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-) and ending with the character on the right of the hyphen metacharacter, matching only those characters in that range. Example:
[a-z] matches all lowercase alphabetic characters. The following command line offers a second example:java RegexDemo [a-c] clown
java RegexDemo [a-c] clown matches c in [a-c] with c in clown. No other matches exist.
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