I am trying to create a regex that will match the first 3 characters of a string,
If I have a string ABCFFFF I want to verify that the first 3 characters are ABC.
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I am trying to create a regex that will match the first 3 characters of a string,
If I have a string ABCFFFF I want to verify that the first 3 characters are ABC.
It’s pretty straightforward, the pattern would be
^ABCAs others may point out, using regular expressions for such a task is an overkill. Any programming language with regex support can do it better with simple string manipulations.