optional characters in javascript regular expression
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I am trying to build a regular expression in javascript that checks for 3 word characters however 2 of them are are optional. So I have:
/^\w\w\w/i
what I am stumped on is how to make it that the user does not have to enter the last two letters but if they do they have to be letters
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