Square brackets [ ] and the hyphen -

Square brackets [ ]

Use square brackets to create a set of characters to match.

When you include a series of characters in brackets, your expression matches one of those characters.

For example, the expression PART[123] matches the following:

The expression doesn't match the following:

Hyphen -

Use the hyphen along with the brackets to create a range of characters to match.

For example, if you need to match any uppercase letter, you can specify [A-Z].

If you need to match any digit, you can specify [0-9].

If you needed to match all of the part numbers, you could use the following expression:

[A-Z]+[0-9]+

• [A-Z] (matches any uppercase letter).
• + (one or more times).
• [0-9] (matches any digit).
• + (one or more times).