Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

1st Alternative(.*foo.+bar.*)

Group 1(.*foo.+bar.*)

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

foothe literal text foo (case sensitive)

.+any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

barthe literal text bar (case sensitive)

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

2nd Alternative(.*bar.+foo.*)

Group 2(.*bar.+foo.*)

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

barthe literal text bar (case sensitive)

.+any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

foothe literal text foo (case sensitive)

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

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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25 tokens

(.*foo.+bar.*)|(.*bar.+foo.*)

foo xxx bar

test foo xxx bar   z

test foo xxx z

test xxx bar z foo

foo xxx bar

test foo xxx bar   z

test foo xxx z

test xxx bar z foo