regex101: Python Match Workspace

Pro

\ba Unicode word boundary

Group 1(crayons|cars|camels)

1st Alternativecrayons

crayonsthe literal text crayons (case insensitive)

2nd Alternativecars

carsthe literal text cars (case insensitive)

3rd Alternativecamels

camelsthe literal text camels (case insensitive)

\ba Unicode word boundary

Non-Capturing Group(?:[^a-z\n]*([a-z]*)[^a-z\n]*([a-z]*))

Negated Character Class[^a-z\n]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

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

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

Group 2([a-z]*)

Character Class[a-z]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

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

Negated Character Class[^a-z\n]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

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

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

Group 3([a-z]*)

Character Class[a-z]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

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

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

i modifier: insensitive. Matches without distinguishing uppercase and lowercase letters

25 tokens

Regular Expression

\b(crayons|cars|camels)\b(?:[^a-z\n]*([a-z]*)[^a-z\n]*([a-z]*))

there are many crayons, in the blue box crayons that are',
cars! i like a lot of sports cars because they go fast',
the camels, in the middle east have many camels to ride,
some more example with edge case camels
some hyphense words see-camels should it match ??
hello test string cars one

Extraction

there are many crayons, in the blue box crayons that are',
cars! i like a lot of sports cars because they go fast',
the camels, in the middle east have many camels to ride,
some more example with edge case camels
some hyphense words see-camels should it match ??
hello test string cars one