Regular Expressions 101

Pro

1st Alternative'([^'()]*)'

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Group 1([^'()]*)

Negated Character Class[^'()]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

2nd Alternative"([^"()]*)"

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 2([^"()]*)

Negated Character Class[^"()]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

3rd Alternative\b(\S*?)\b\s*[,)]

\ban ASCII word boundary

Group 3(\S*?)

\S*?any non-whitespace character, repeated any number of times

\ban ASCII word boundary

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Character Class[,)]

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

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

'([^'()]*)'|"([^"()]*)"|\b(\S*?)\b\s*[,)]

New

(4,3,"fou'r", '2')
('one, two',3,"four")
(4,"four",3)

(4,3,"fou'r", '2')
('one, two',3,"four")
(4,"four",3)