Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

-NPthe literal text -NP (case sensitive)

Group 1(\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

-NPthe literal text -NP (case sensitive)

Group 2(\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

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25 tokens

-NP(\w+)-.*-NP(\w+)-

But nice also to -NPpardalotes- and other -NPbirds-.