Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(start.*)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

startthe literal text start (case sensitive)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Group 2(start.*end)

startthe literal text start (case sensitive)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

endthe literal text end (case sensitive)

Global pattern flags

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

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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Regular Expression

(start.*)?(start.*end)

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Situated start about 150 start miles start(240 km) north of Las Vegas, the remote start hamlet of just 50 year-round start residents lacks a grocery store end or even a gasoline station.