Regular Expressions 101

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\ba Unicode word boundary

Group 1(I like)

I likethe literal text I like (case sensitive)

\ba Unicode word boundary

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

Group 2(\w+)

\w+a Unicode word character, repeated at least once

Positive Lookahead(?=\s*(?:\bI like\b|$))

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

Non-Capturing Group(?:\bI like\b|$)

1st Alternative\bI like\b

\ba Unicode word boundary

I likethe literal text I like (case sensitive)

\ba Unicode word boundary

2nd Alternative$

$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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25 tokens

\b(I like)\b.*?(\w+)(?=\s*(?:\bI like\b|$))

I like bla blab blah chocolate I like bla blob bla cheese

I like bla blab blah chocolate I like bla blob bla cheese