Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

Group 1(["']?)

Character Class["']?

?matches at most one character from the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

\?the literal ? (63₁₀ / 77₈ / 3F₁₆)

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

;the literal ; (59₁₀ / 73₈ / 3B₁₆)

\1the text saved by group 1

$end of line

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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Regular Expression

^(["']?)\?.*;\1$

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