Match single character in .net regex

Question

According to the MSDN documentation, the . character

Matches any single character except \n.

In this case, why does this regex not match?:

Regex.IsMatch("c",@"[.]")

Answer 1

You are matching [.] which means character .. Use just . to get your result. The [] mean any of the character inside. So by . loses its special meaning because of this.

See demo.

http://regex101.com/r/qC9cH4/19

c is being captured by the second group, not the first one.