*
Match zero, one or more of the previous
Lau* matches "Lauuuu" or "La"
+
Match one or more of the previous
Lau+ matches "Lau" or "Lauu" but not "La"
?
Match zero or one of the previous
Lau? matches "Lax" or "Lau" or "La"
\
Used to escape a special character
Hello\? matches "Hello?"
.
Wildcard character, matches any character
do.* matches "doc", "dot" etc
[ ]
Matches a range of characters
{ }
Matches a specified number of occurrences of the previous
^
Beginning of a string.
or negation in []