Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

\ban ASCII word boundary

OneWordthe literal text OneWord (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Positive Lookahead(?=(?:[^"]*"[^"]*")*[^"]*$)

Non-Capturing Group(?:[^"]*"[^"]*")*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

$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

"[^"]*\bOneWord\b[^"]*"(?=(?:[^"]*"[^"]*")*[^"]*$)

New

"xxxxxxxxxxxxxx " , OneWord ; OneWord, "xxxxx , OneWord xxxxx". " OneWord 1" ----  " OneWord 2":

"xxxxxxxxxxxxxx " , OneWord ; OneWord, "xxxxx , OneWord xxxxx". " OneWord 1" ----  " OneWord 2":