We can use character sets to specify a group of characters to match, but that's a lot of typing when you need to match a large range of characters (for example, every letter in the alphabet). Fortunately, there is a built-in feature that makes this short and simple.
Inside a character set, you can define a range of characters to match using a hyphen character: -.
For example, to match lowercase letters a through e you would use [a-e].
let catStr = "cat";
let batStr = "bat";
let matStr = "mat";
let bgRegex = /[a-e]at/;
catStr.match(bgRegex);
batStr.match(bgRegex);
matStr.match(bgRegex);
In order, the three match() calls would return the values ["cat"], ["bat"], and null.
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