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The Concatenation Operator
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  This operator concatenates two regular expressions A and B.  No
character represents this operator; you simply put B after A.  The
result is a regular expression that will match a string if A matches
its first part and B matches the rest.  For example, `xy' (two
match-self operators) matches `xy'.