Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Negative Lookbehind(?<!\\)

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:\\{2})*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

\\{2}the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆) , repeated exactly 2 times

Group 1(['"`])

Character Class['"`]

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

`the literal ` (96₁₀ / 140₈ / 60₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:\\.|(?!\g{1}).)*+

*+repeats the group contents below any number of times:

1st Alternative\\.

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

.any character (except for line terminators)

2nd Alternative(?!\g{1}).

Negative Lookahead(?!\g{1})

\g{1}the text saved by group 1

.any character (except for line terminators)

\g{1}the text saved by group 1

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

Regular Expression

(?<!\\)(?:\\{2})*(['"`])(?:\\.|(?!\g{1}).)*+\g{1}

New

\` \' \" can escape delimiters outside
'can \'escape\' active delimiters inside'
'can use' "different delimiters"
`can '"'"'"'""' ignore non-active delimiters`