Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(benz\s+[[:alpha:]]+)

benzthe literal text benz (case sensitive)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Character Class[[:alpha:]]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

[:alpha:]an alphabetic character [a-zA-Z]

\da digit

\w*any word character, repeated any number of times

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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Search reference

Regular Expression

(benz\s+[[:alpha:]]+)\d\w*

New

2010 mercedes-benz sl500r
2010 mercedes-benz e550
2010 mercedes-benz glk350
2010 mercedes-benz c300w
2010 mercedes-benz 300

("2010 mercedes-benz sl",
  "2020 mercedes-benz e",
  "2017 mercedes-benz glk",
  "2013 mercedes-benz c",
  "2014 mercedes-benz 300")

Substitution

\1