Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternative(?ix) c ["'] \K

(?ix)applies the following effective flags to the remainder of the pattern: gmix

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

x modifier: extended. Ignores unescaped whitespace and comments outside character classes

c the literal text c (case insensitive)

Character Class["']

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

\Kresets the starting point of the reported match. Any previously consumed characters are no longer included in the final match

2nd Alternative (?<=\G) [^"']*? \K \w+

Positive Lookbehind(?<=\G)

\Gstart of current search

Negated Character Class[^"']*?

*?matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

\Kresets the starting point of the reported match. Any previously consumed characters are no longer included in the final match

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

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

(?ix) c ["'] \K  |  (?<=\G) [^"']*? \K \w+

New

c"word & word" = word + word
c"12 = word" + word
c word & word = word + word
c 12 = word + word