Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

Group 1((.+?)(another?|anoother?)(.+))

Group 2(.+?)

.+?any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

Group 3(another?|anoother?)

1st Alternativeanother?

anothethe literal text anothe (case sensitive)

r?optionally matches the literal r (114₁₀ / 162₈ / 72₁₆) (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativeanoother?

anoothethe literal text anoothe (case sensitive)

r?optionally matches the literal r (114₁₀ / 162₈ / 72₁₆) (case sensitive)

Group 4(.+)

.+any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

$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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26 tokens

Regular Expression

^((.+?)(another?|anoother?)(.+))$

New

this is the anoother line\n
this is the another line\n
this is the anothe line\n
this is the other line\n

this is the anoother line\n
this is the another line\n
this is the anothe line\n
this is the other line\n