Regular Expressions 101

Next Candidatethe literal text Next Candidate (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^\w]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\wa Unicode word character

Group 1(\w+)

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

\h+any horizontal whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group 2(\w+)

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

Negated Character Class[^\d\(]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\da Unicode decimal digit

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

Group 3([\d\.\- \(\)]+)

Character Class[\d\.\- \(\)]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\da Unicode decimal digit

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

\-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

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

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Regular Expression

Next Candidate[^\w]+(\w+)\h+(\w+)[^\d\(]+([\d\.\- \(\)]+)

New

Next Candidate

FirstName LastName

845-728-1111
Applied

or this way

Next Candidate
FirstName LastName
845-728-1111
Applied

Next Candidate
FirstName LastName
(845) 728-1111
Applied

Regular Expression

Extraction