Regular Expressions: Matching a Range Item Multiple Times

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You can check if a string contains one an only one character in a range, by starting the regex with ^ and ending with the $ char:

/^[A-Z]$/.test('A')  //✅
/^[A-Z]$/.test('AB') //❌
/^[A-Z]$/.test('Ab') //❌
/^[A-Za-z0-9]$/.test('1')  //✅
/^[A-Za-z0-9]$/.test('A1') //❌

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: Introduction
2: Anchoring
3: Match Items in Ranges
4: ▶︎ Matching a Range Item Multiple Times
5: Negating a Pattern
6: Meta Characters
7: Regular Expressions Choices
8: Quantifiers
9: Optional Items
10: Groups
11: Capturing Groups
12: Using match and exec Without Groups
13: Noncapturing Groups
14: Flags
15: Inspecting a Regex
16: Escaping
17: String Boundaries
18: Replacing
19: Greediness
20: Lookaheads
21: Lookbehinds
22: Unicode
23: Unicode Property Escapes
24: Examples