Regular Expressions 101

\ba Unicode word boundary

Character Class[a-zA-Z']+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

\ba Unicode word boundary

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

u modifier: unicode. Treats the pattern and subject as UTF-16

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Regular Expression

\b[a-zA-Z']+\b

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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing...

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