Regular Expressions 101

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^start of string

Negated Character Class[^\*]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

starbuckthe literal text starbuck (case insensitive)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Global pattern flags

i modifier: insensitive. Matches without distinguishing uppercase and lowercase letters

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^[^\*]*starbuck.*