regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Substitution Workspace

1st Alternative(?i)\b(?:End(?: DATE|(?:ing)?)|(?:0?[1-9]|1[012])(?:[-/.](?:0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01]))?[-/.](?:19|20)?\d\d)\b

(?i)applies the following effective flags to the remainder of the pattern: gmi

i modifier: insensitive. Matches without distinguishing uppercase and lowercase letters

\ban ASCII word boundary

Non-Capturing Group(?:End(?: DATE|(?:ing)?)|(?:0?[1-9]|1[012])(?:[-/.](?:0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01]))?[-/.](?:19|20)?\d\d)

1st AlternativeEnd(?: DATE|(?:ing)?)

Endthe literal text End (case insensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?: DATE|(?:ing)?)

1st Alternative DATE

DATEthe literal text DATE (case insensitive)

2nd Alternative(?:ing)?

Non-Capturing Group(?:ing)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

ingthe literal text ing (case insensitive)

2nd Alternative(?:0?[1-9]|1[012])(?:[-/.](?:0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01]))?[-/.](?:19|20)?\d\d

Non-Capturing Group(?:0?[1-9]|1[012])

1st Alternative0?[1-9]

0?optionally matches the literal 0 (48₁₀ / 60₈ / 30₁₆)

Character Class[1-9]

1-9one character from 1 (49₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

2nd Alternative1[012]

1the literal 1 (49₁₀ / 61₈ / 31₁₆)

Character Class[012]

0the literal 0 (48₁₀ / 60₈ / 30₁₆)

1the literal 1 (49₁₀ / 61₈ / 31₁₆)

2the literal 2 (50₁₀ / 62₈ / 32₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:[-/.](?:0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01]))?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

Character Class[-/.]

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])

1st Alternative0?[1-9]

0?optionally matches the literal 0 (48₁₀ / 60₈ / 30₁₆)

Character Class[1-9]

1-9one character from 1 (49₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

2nd Alternative[12][0-9]

Character Class[12]

1the literal 1 (49₁₀ / 61₈ / 31₁₆)

2the literal 2 (50₁₀ / 62₈ / 32₁₆)

Character Class[0-9]

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

3rd Alternative3[01]

3the literal 3 (51₁₀ / 63₈ / 33₁₆)

Character Class[01]

0the literal 0 (48₁₀ / 60₈ / 30₁₆)

1the literal 1 (49₁₀ / 61₈ / 31₁₆)

Character Class[-/.]

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:19|20)?

\da digit

\ban ASCII word boundary

2nd Alternative([\s»]){2,}

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

25 tokens

Regular Expression

(?i)\b(?:End(?: DATE|(?:ing)?)|(?:0?[1-9]|1[012])(?:[-/.](?:0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01]))?[-/.](?:19|20)?\d\d)\b|([\s»]){2,}

New

Ending", "ENDING", "END", "end", "End", "END DATE
1/31/2020, 3/20
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Extraction

Ending", "ENDING", "END", "end", "End", "END DATE
1/31/2020, 3/20
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