Summary

This is it for this chapter! You officially have everything you need to mentally parse regular expressions! How does that feel? Just to summarize, here is what that means:

• You now know that a regular expression can have special characters, character classes, quantifiers, groups (some that capture matches and others that don’t), and flags.
• You understand how to create optional parts in your expression by using the ? character.
• You’ve (ideally) tested some examples using the regex101.com site.

However, we haven’t seen a single line of useful JavaScript! Worry not! We’ll start tackling coding examples in the next chapter. So, if you’re eager to start with your JavaScripting, keep reading!