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Exercises 5.20 Fill-In, Literal String Answers

For a string answer, PreTeXt compares the reader’s response against the answer as a literal string. So characters that have special meaning in a regular expression, such as ., (, or +, are matched exactly rather than acting as wildcards or operators. These examples exercise that behavior across a range of such characters, whether the correct answer is compared explicitly (with use-answer or literal) or left to be supplied automatically from the fillin.

1. Fill-In, Decimal Point.

2. Fill-In, A Dotted Address.

3. Fill-In, A Formula with Several Symbols.

4. Fill-In, A File Path.

5. Fill-In, A Price.

6. Fill-In, Literal Match Ignoring Case.

7. Fill-In, Explicit Literal Test.

8. Fill-In, Answer Taken from the Fillin.