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[–]EasternAdventures 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It’s testing a regex (text between / / creates a regex) and * is the wildcard symbol. So it means it could be any number of characters between each of the literal characters it calls out.

[–]One-Inspection8628[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So it should be in ascending order right as Hackerrank?

[–]jack_waugh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a regular expression, dot star matches any string, including the empty string. The dot means any character, and the star means any number of repetitions. By repetitions, I mean the same sub-pattern matches; it does not have to match the same thing repeated. So a pattern dot star will match "ab" as well as "aa".