title: Regex forward slash
body: <p>What does a '/' character mean in a regular expression?</p>
  
  <p>I have observed the following example to match single or double digit numbers.</p>
  
  <pre><code>/^\d{1,2}$/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I googled multiple regex cheat sheets, the forward slash did not show up as a character with meaning in regex....</p>
  
  <p>What does '/' do in regex?</p>