*repeats the group contents below any number of times:
"the literal " (3410 / 428 / 2216)
.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times
"the literal " (3410 / 428 / 2216)
*matches any number of characters from the set below:
the literal (3210 / 408 / 2016)
\ta tab character (ASCII 9)
\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)