Question

there is a text file with words.
so if a word has 5 letters and the first letter is a and the last letter is s i want to match all the words that follow that pattern.

^a.???.s$

this doesn’t seem to work

( i’m testing in notepad++ )

any ideas what the correct regex would be ?

thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I think you are looking for:

^a.{3}s$ // .{3} means, match any character exactly 3 times.

Which is basically the same as:

^a...s$ // . means, match any character