Regular Expressions 101

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Non-Capturing Group(?:\p{Extended_Pictographic}[\p{Emoji_Modifier}\p{M}]*(?:\p{Join_Control}\p{Extended_Pictographic}[\p{Emoji_Modifier}\p{M}]*)*|\s|.)

1st Alternative\p{Extended_Pictographic}[\p{Emoji_Modifier}\p{M}]*(?:\p{Join_Control}\p{Extended_Pictographic}[\p{Emoji_Modifier}\p{M}]*)*

\p{Extended_Pictographic}characters for which the Extended_Pictographic binary property is true

Character Class[\p{Emoji_Modifier}\p{M}]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

\p{Emoji_Modifier}characters for which the Emoji_Modifier binary property is true

\p{M}a combining mark

Non-Capturing Group(?:\p{Join_Control}\p{Extended_Pictographic}[\p{Emoji_Modifier}\p{M}]*)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

\p{Join_Control}characters for which the Join_Control binary property is true

\p{Extended_Pictographic}characters for which the Extended_Pictographic binary property is true

Character Class[\p{Emoji_Modifier}\p{M}]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

\p{Emoji_Modifier}characters for which the Emoji_Modifier binary property is true

\p{M}a combining mark

2nd Alternative\s

\sany whitespace character

3rd Alternative.

.any character (except for line terminators)

\p{M}*a combining mark, repeated any number of times

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

u modifier: unicode. Enables Unicode-aware matching and escape syntax

y modifier: sticky. Matches only at the current search position instead of scanning ahead

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Regular Expression

(?:\p{Extended_Pictographic}[\p{Emoji_Modifier}\p{M}]*(?:\p{Join_Control}\p{Extended_Pictographic}[\p{Emoji_Modifier}\p{M}]*)*|\s|.)\p{M}*

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