regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

\ban ASCII word boundary

paymentsthe literal text payments (case sensitive)

\W+any non-word character, repeated at least once

Non-Capturing Group(?:\w+\W+){1,9}?

{1,9}?repeats the group contents below between 1 and 9 times:

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\W+any non-word character, repeated at least once

Group highlight(?<highlight>\d{1,3})

\d{1,3}a digit, repeated between 1 and 3 times

\s+?any whitespace character, repeated at least once

daysthe literal text days (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

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

Search reference

Regular Expression

\bpayments\W+(?:\w+\W+){1,9}?(?<highlight>\d{1,3})\s+?days\b

New

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Maecenas at neque eu felis rutrum efficitur. Pellentesque lacinia mauris metus, at dapibus ante varius non. Maecenas non pulvinar velit. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Fusce ut risus sollicitudin, interdum dolor condimentum, hendrerit nibh. Donec efficitur sem nisl, ut tristique mauris pulvinar eget. payments must be made within 60 days. Duis eu odio vitae turpis pulvinar placerat vulputate a diam. Maecenas eget risus mauris. Nulla ac convallis erat, a commodo velit. Fusce convallis ultrices neque. Etiam id urna lacus. Mauris fermentum tortor lacus, id congue dui suscipit vitae. Donec mi odio, laoreet a enim et, suscipit varius mauris. Nulla facilisi.--

Regular Expressions 101

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