Regular Expressions 101

Pro

1st Alternative\s([\-\+\!]?)([\-\+\!]?)(?:([\'"])(.+?)\3)

\sany whitespace character

Group 1([\-\+\!]?)

Character Class[\-\+\!]?

?matches at most one character from the set below:

\-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

\+the literal + (43₁₀ / 53₈ / 2B₁₆)

\!the literal ! (33₁₀ / 41₈ / 21₁₆)

Group 2([\-\+\!]?)

Character Class[\-\+\!]?

?matches at most one character from the set below:

\-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

\+the literal + (43₁₀ / 53₈ / 2B₁₆)

\!the literal ! (33₁₀ / 41₈ / 21₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:([\'"])(.+?)\3)

Group 3([\'"])

Character Class[\'"]

\'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 4(.+?)

.+?any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

\3the text saved by group 3

2nd Alternative([\-\+\!]?[\w\-#@\/\(\)]+)

Group 5([\-\+\!]?[\w\-#@\/\(\)]+)

Character Class[\-\+\!]?

?matches at most one character from the set below:

\-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

\+the literal + (43₁₀ / 53₈ / 2B₁₆)

\!the literal ! (33₁₀ / 41₈ / 21₁₆)

Character Class[\w\-#@\/\(\)]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\wany word character

\-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

#the literal # (35₁₀ / 43₈ / 23₁₆)

@the literal @ (64₁₀ / 100₈ / 40₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\(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

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25 tokens

\s([\-\+\!]?)([\-\+\!]?)(?:([\'"])(.+?)\3)|([\-\+\!]?[\w\-#@\/\(\)]+)

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