regular expression question

Is it possible for a regular expression to macth only an empty string? What
I want is exactly {0}, but that causes the parser to throw an exception -

parsing "{0}" - Quantifier {x,y} following nothing.

Duh, I want nothing. Maybe I need an expression that evaluates to "not
anything?" I can't find that either.

Paul


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