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9-regular-expressions/09-regexp-quantifiers/1-find-text-manydots/solution.md

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+
+Solution:
+
+```js run
+let reg = /\.{3,}/g;
+alert( "Hello!... How goes?.....".match(reg) ); // ..., .....
+```
+
+Please note that the dot is a special character, so we have to escape it and insert as `\.`.

9-regular-expressions/09-regexp-quantifiers/1-find-text-manydots/task.md

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+importance: 5
+
+---
+
+#  How to find an ellipsis "..." ?
+
+Create a regexp to find ellipsis: 3 (or more?) dots in a row.
+
+Check it:
+
+```js
+let reg = /your regexp/g;
+alert( "Hello!... How goes?.....".match(reg) ); // ..., .....
+```

9-regular-expressions/09-regexp-quantifiers/2-find-html-colors-6hex/solution.md

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+We need to look for `#` followed by 6 hexadecimal characters.
+
+A hexadecimal character can be described as `pattern:[0-9a-fA-F]`. Or if we use the `pattern:i` flag, then just  `pattern:[0-9a-f]`.
+
+Then we can look for 6 of them using the quantifier `pattern:{6}`.
+
+As a result, we have the regexp: `pattern:/#[a-f0-9]{6}/gi`.
+
+```js run
+let reg = /#[a-f0-9]{6}/gi;
+
+let str = "color:#121212; background-color:#AA00ef bad-colors:f#fddee #fd2"
+
+alert( str.match(reg) );  // #121212,#AA00ef
+```
+
+The problem is that it finds the color in longer sequences:
+
+```js run
+alert( "#12345678".match( /#[a-f0-9]{6}/gi ) ) // #12345678
+```
+
+To fix that, we can add `pattern:\b` to the end:
+
+```js run
+// color
+alert( "#123456".match( /#[a-f0-9]{6}\b/gi ) ); // #123456
+
+// not a color
+alert( "#12345678".match( /#[a-f0-9]{6}\b/gi ) ); // null
+```

9-regular-expressions/09-regexp-quantifiers/2-find-html-colors-6hex/task.md

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+# Regexp for HTML colors
+
+Create a regexp to search HTML-colors written as `#ABCDEF`: first `#` and then 6 hexadecimal characters.
+
+An example of use:
+
+```js
+let reg = /...your regexp.../
+
+let str = "color:#121212; background-color:#AA00ef bad-colors:f#fddee #fd2 #12345678";
+
+alert( str.match(reg) )  // #121212,#AA00ef
+```
+
+P.S. In this task we do not need other color formats like `#123` or `rgb(1,2,3)` etc.

9-regular-expressions/09-regexp-quantifiers/article.md

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+# Quantifiers +, *, ? and {n}
+
+Let's say we have a string like `+7(903)-123-45-67` and want to find all numbers in it. But unlike before, we are interested not in single digits, but full numbers: `7, 903, 123, 45, 67`.
+
+A number is a sequence of 1 or more digits `pattern:\d`. To mark how many we need, we need to append a *quantifier*.
+
+## Quantity {n}
+
+The simplest quantifier is a number in curly braces: `pattern:{n}`.
+
+A quantifier is appended to a character (or a character class, or a `[...]` set etc) and specifies how many we need.
+
+It has a few advanced forms, let's see examples:
+
+The exact count: `{5}`
+: `pattern:\d{5}` denotes exactly 5 digits, the same as `pattern:\d\d\d\d\d`.
+
+    The example below looks for a 5-digit number:
+
+    ```js run
+    alert( "I'm 12345 years old".match(/\d{5}/) ); //  "12345"
+    ```
+
+    We can add `\b` to exclude longer numbers: `pattern:\b\d{5}\b`.
+
+The range: `{3,5}`, match 3-5 times
+: To find numbers from 3 to 5 digits we can put the limits into curly braces: `pattern:\d{3,5}`
+
+    ```js run
+    alert( "I'm not 12, but 1234 years old".match(/\d{3,5}/) ); // "1234"
+    ```
+
+    We can omit the upper limit.
+
+    Then a regexp `pattern:\d{3,}` looks for sequences of digits of length `3` or more:
+
+    ```js run
+    alert( "I'm not 12, but 345678 years old".match(/\d{3,}/) ); // "345678"
+    ```
+
+Let's return to the string `+7(903)-123-45-67`.
+
+A number is a sequence of one or more digits in a row. So the regexp is `pattern:\d{1,}`:
+
+```js run
+let str = "+7(903)-123-45-67";
+
+let numbers = str.match(/\d{1,}/g);
+
+alert(numbers); // 7,903,123,45,67
+```
+
+## Shorthands
+
+There are shorthands for most used quantifiers:
+
+`+`
+: Means "one or more", the same as `{1,}`.
+
+    For instance, `pattern:\d+` looks for numbers:
+
+    ```js run
+    let str = "+7(903)-123-45-67";
+
+    alert( str.match(/\d+/g) ); // 7,903,123,45,67
+    ```
+
+`?`
+: Means "zero or one", the same as `{0,1}`. In other words, it makes the symbol optional.
+
+    For instance, the pattern `pattern:ou?r` looks for `match:o` followed by zero or one `match:u`, and then `match:r`.
+
+    So, `pattern:colou?r` finds both `match:color` and `match:colour`:
+
+    ```js run
+    let str = "Should I write color or colour?";
+
+    alert( str.match(/colou?r/g) ); // color, colour
+    ```
+
+`*`
+: Means "zero or more", the same as `{0,}`. That is, the character may repeat any times or be absent.
+
+    For example, `pattern:\d0*` looks for a digit followed by any number of zeroes:
+
+    ```js run
+    alert( "100 10 1".match(/\d0*/g) ); // 100, 10, 1
+    ```
+
+    Compare it with `'+'` (one or more):
+
+    ```js run
+    alert( "100 10 1".match(/\d0+/g) ); // 100, 10
+    // 1 not matched, as 0+ requires at least one zero
+    ```
+
+## More examples
+
+Quantifiers are used very often. They serve as the main "building block" of complex regular expressions, so let's see more examples.
+
+Regexp "decimal fraction" (a number with a floating point): `pattern:\d+\.\d+`
+: In action:
+    ```js run
+    alert( "0 1 12.345 7890".match(/\d+\.\d+/g) ); // 12.345
+    ```
+
+Regexp "open HTML-tag without attributes", like `<span>` or `<p>`: `pattern:/<[a-z]+>/i`
+: In action:
+
+    ```js run
+    alert( "<body> ... </body>".match(/<[a-z]+>/gi) ); // <body>
+    ```
+
+    We look for character `pattern:'<'` followed by one or more Latin letters, and then  `pattern:'>'`.
+
+Regexp "open HTML-tag without attributes" (improved): `pattern:/<[a-z][a-z0-9]*>/i`
+: Better regexp: according to the standard, HTML tag name may have a digit at any position except the first one, like `<h1>`.
+
+    ```js run
+    alert( "<h1>Hi!</h1>".match(/<[a-z][a-z0-9]*>/gi) ); // <h1>
+    ```
+
+Regexp "opening or closing HTML-tag without attributes": `pattern:/<\/?[a-z][a-z0-9]*>/i`
+: We added an optional slash `pattern:/?` before the tag. Had to escape it with a backslash, otherwise JavaScript would think it is the pattern end.
+
+    ```js run
+    alert( "<h1>Hi!</h1>".match(/<\/?[a-z][a-z0-9]*>/gi) ); // <h1>, </h1>
+    ```
+
+```smart header="To make a regexp more precise, we often need make it more complex"
+We can see one common rule in these examples: the more precise is the regular expression -- the longer and more complex it is.
+
+For instance, for HTML tags we could use a simpler regexp: `pattern:<\w+>`.
+
+...But because `pattern:\w` means any Latin letter or a digit or `'_'`, the regexp also matches non-tags, for instance `match:<_>`. So it's much simpler than `pattern:<[a-z][a-z0-9]*>`, but less reliable.
+
+Are we ok with `pattern:<\w+>` or we need `pattern:<[a-z][a-z0-9]*>`?
+
+In real life both variants are acceptable. Depends on how tolerant we can be to "extra" matches and whether it's difficult or not to filter them out by other means.
+```