Regular expression to match a string starting with some characters and following with some symblos <p>I would like to match a string which starts with character sequence <code>49</code>. The string i get to evaluate will be like <code>49/1.0 or 49/2.0</code> etc. If I use <code>^49</code> it is not matching with the string i receive (ie: <code>49/1.0</code>). My expression matches with the string if I receive <code>49XX</code> only. I do not sure what are the symbols will follow the <code>49</code> character. </p> <p>How can i define regular expression for this?</p>