regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

\ban ASCII word boundary

Non-Capturing Group(?:item\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,2}?(?:1|one)\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,3}?business)

itemthe literal text item (case insensitive)

\W+any non-word character, repeated at least once

Non-Capturing Group(?:\w+\W+){0,2}?

{0,2}?repeats the group contents below between 0 and 2 times:

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\W+any non-word character, repeated at least once

Non-Capturing Group(?:1|one)

1st Alternative1

1the literal 1 (49₁₀ / 61₈ / 31₁₆)

2nd Alternativeone

onethe literal text one (case insensitive)

\W+any non-word character, repeated at least once

Non-Capturing Group(?:\w+\W+){0,3}?

{0,3}?repeats the group contents below between 0 and 3 times:

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\W+any non-word character, repeated at least once

businessthe literal text business (case insensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

Group 1(.{0,200})

.{0,200}any character, repeated between 0 and 200 times

\ban ASCII word boundary

Non-Capturing Group(?:item\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,2}?(?:3|three)\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,3}?legal\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,3}?proceedings)

itemthe literal text item (case insensitive)

\W+any non-word character, repeated at least once

Non-Capturing Group(?:\w+\W+){0,2}?

{0,2}?repeats the group contents below between 0 and 2 times:

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\W+any non-word character, repeated at least once

Non-Capturing Group(?:3|three)

1st Alternative3

3the literal 3 (51₁₀ / 63₈ / 33₁₆)

2nd Alternativethree

threethe literal text three (case insensitive)

\W+any non-word character, repeated at least once

Non-Capturing Group(?:\w+\W+){0,3}?

{0,3}?repeats the group contents below between 0 and 3 times:

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\W+any non-word character, repeated at least once

legalthe literal text legal (case insensitive)

\W+any non-word character, repeated at least once

Non-Capturing Group(?:\w+\W+){0,3}?

{0,3}?repeats the group contents below between 0 and 3 times:

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\W+any non-word character, repeated at least once

proceedingsthe literal text proceedings (case insensitive)

\ban ASCII 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

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

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

Search reference

Regular Expression

\b(?:item\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,2}?(?:1|one)\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,3}?business)\b(.{0,200})\b(?:item\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,2}?(?:3|three)\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,3}?legal\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,3}?proceedings)\b

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