Symbol for any number of any characters in regex?

Question

I\'m wondering is there a symbol for any number (including zero) of any characters

Answer 1

You can use this regular expression (any whitespace or any non-whitespace) as many times as possible down to and including 0.

[\s\S]*

This expression will match as few as possible, but as many as necessary for the rest of the expression.

[\s\S]*?

For example, in this regex [\s\S]*?B will match aB in aBaaaaB. But in this regex [\s\S]*B will match aBaaaaB in aBaaaaB.