How to match "any character" in regular expression?

java regex

Yes, you can. That should work.

java regex

Yes that will work, though note that . will not match newlines unless you pass the DOTALL flag when compiling the expression:

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(".*123", Pattern.DOTALL);Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(inputStr);boolean matchFound = matcher.matches();

java regex

Use the pattern . to match any character once, .* to match any character zero or more times, .+ to match any character one or more times.

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