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All regular expressions can be broken down into their individual components, as something like this...
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Fundamental structure of regexps
/(this|that)+/
== /(this|that){1,}/
== /(t{1}h{1}i{1}s{1}|t{1}h{1}a{1}t{1}){1,}/
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