Regular Expressions 101

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\\"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:\\.[^\\"]*)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

.any character (except for line terminators)

Negated Character Class[^\\"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

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

Regular Expression

"[^\\"]*(?:\\.[^\\"]*)*"

New

# COMMENT ONLY REGEX -->        ;.+
1+2+3 ; this is my comment
2+3


# STRING ONLY REGEX -->    "[^\\"]*(?:\\.[^\\"]*)*"
1+2+3+ this is a ";string;" "and another"
1+2+3 "another string"

# COMBINED REGEX -->       ?????????
(*1+2+"hello")+3 ; this is my comment
1+2+()*&^"*;;;"h;\";;;\"ello;" ; another comment
1+2+;"a comment ;;;
1+2+ "; \"" ";\"hello" ; comment