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9.3. What You Should Know

1.What are metacharacters used for?
2.What is a character class?
3.What is meant by a "greedy" metacharacter?
4.What is an anchoring metacharacter?
5.How do you search for a literal period?
6.What is capturing? Can you turn it off?
7.What is grouping?
8.How does a character class differ from alternation?
9.How do you search for one or more digits?
10.How do you search for zero or one digit?
11.What is a metasymbol?
12.What is the purpose of the "squeeze" option when used with tr?
13.What is utf8?

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