Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternative\b(?<han>\p{Han}+)\b

\ba Unicode word boundary

Group han(?<han>\p{Han}+)

\p{Han}+characters whose Script property is Han, repeated at least once

\ba Unicode word boundary

2nd Alternative\b(?<alpha>[a-zA-Z0-9{}']+)\b

\ba Unicode word boundary

Group alpha(?<alpha>[a-zA-Z0-9{}']+)

Character Class[a-zA-Z0-9{}']+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

{the literal { (123₁₀ / 173₈ / 7B₁₆)

}the literal } (125₁₀ / 175₈ / 7D₁₆)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

\ba Unicode word boundary

3rd Alternative(?<other>[^\p{Han}A-Za-z0-9\s]+)

Group other(?<other>[^\p{Han}A-Za-z0-9\s]+)

Negated Character Class[^\p{Han}A-Za-z0-9\s]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\p{Han}characters whose Script property is Han

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

\sa Unicode whitespace character

Global pattern flags

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

u modifier: unicode. Treats the pattern and subject as UTF-16

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

\b(?<han>\p{Han}+)\b|\b(?<alpha>[a-zA-Z0-9{}']+)\b|(?<other>[^\p{Han}A-Za-z0-9\s]+)

New

Many cats{1}, several rats{2}

Many cats{1}, several rats{2}