Detailed explanation of the use of . metacharacter in regular expressions (with code)

This time I will bring you a detailed explanation of the use of the . sign metacharacter in regular expressions (with code). What are the precautions when using the . sign metacharacter in regular expressions? The following is a practical case, let’s take a look.

Regular expression. sign metacharacter:
The dot (.) metacharacter can match characters other than carriage return (\r) and line feed (\n) Any character.
Syntax structure:
Constructor functionMethod:

new RegExp(".")

Direct object method:
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/./

Browser support:
IE browser supports this metacharacter.
Firefox supports this metacharacter.
Google Chrome supports this metacharacter.

Note:

In IE9 or above browsers or other standard browsers, the decimal point can match except carriage return (\r) and line feed (\n) Any character other than .
In browsers below IE8, the decimal point can match any character except the newline character (\n).
Example code:
Example 1:

var str="antzone<123"; 
var reg=new RegExp(".+"); 
console.log(str.match(reg));

The above code can match all characters in the string.

Example 2:

var str="antzone<123"; 
var reg=/.+/; 
console.log(str.match(reg));

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