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 # 2. Meta Characters
 
-Meta characters are the building blocks of the regular expressions. Some meta characters have a special meaning that are written inside the square brackets.
+Meta characters are the building blocks of the regular expressions. Some meta characters have a special meaning that are written inside the square brackets. The meta character are as follows:
+
+|Meta character|Description|
+|:----:|----|
+|**.**|Period matches any single character except a line break.|
+|**[ ]**|Character class. Matches any character contained between the square brackets.|
+|**[^ ]**|Negated character class. Matches any character that is not contained between the square brackets|
+|*****|Matches 0 or more repetitions of the preceding symbol.|
+|**+**|Matches 1 or more repetitions of the preceding symbol.
+|**?**|Makes the preceding symbol optional.|
+|**{n}**|Braces. Matches “n” repetitions of the preceding symbol.|
+|**(xyz)**|Character group. Matches the characters xyz in that exact order.|
+|**|**|Alternation. Matches either the characters before or the characters after the symbol.|
+|**\**|Escapes the next character. This allows you to match reserved characters `[ ] ( ) { } . * + ? ^ $ \ |`|
+|**^**|Matches the beginning of the input.|
+|**$**|Matches the end of the input.|
 
 # 2.1 Full stop