Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?<=-)|(?<=-\w)|(?<=-\w{2}))

1st Alternative(?<=-)

Positive Lookbehind(?<=-)

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

2nd Alternative(?<=-\w)

Positive Lookbehind(?<=-\w)

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

\wa Unicode word character

3rd Alternative(?<=-\w{2})

Positive Lookbehind(?<=-\w{2})

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

\w{2}a Unicode word character, repeated exactly 2 times

\wa Unicode word character

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

(?:(?<=-)|(?<=-\w)|(?<=-\w{2}))\w

New

asd-wqe ffvrf
asd-ss sd
a-word
a-verylongword
an-extremelyverylongword

*

asd-wqe ffvrf
asd-ss sd
a-word
a-verylongword
an-extremelyverylongword