Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternative\"\"\"(.*?)\"\"\"

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 1(.*?)

.*?any Unicode character, repeated any number of times

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

2nd Alternative'''(.*?)'''

'''the literal text '''

Group 2(.*?)

.*?any Unicode character, repeated any number of times

'''the literal text '''

3rd Alternative"(.*?)"

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 3(.*?)

.*?any Unicode character, repeated any number of times

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

4th Alternative'(.*?)'

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Group 4(.*?)

.*?any Unicode character, repeated any number of times

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Global pattern flags

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

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Regular Expression

\"\"\"(.*?)\"\"\"|'''(.*?)'''|"(.*?)"|'(.*?)'

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