Regular Expressions 101

Pro

1st Alternative(?:\".*?\")

Non-Capturing Group(?:\".*?\")

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

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

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

2nd Alternative(\S+/\S+)

Group 1(\S+/\S+)

\S+any character that is not Unicode whitespace, repeated at least once

/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\S+any character that is not Unicode whitespace, repeated at least once

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

(?:\".*?\")|(\S+/\S+)

some text/more text "dont match/me" divideme/(byme)
(formula)/dividethis
divideme/(byme) "dont match/me hel d/b lo a/b" divideme/(byme)
"dont match/me"

Substitution

some text/more text "dont match/me" divideme/(byme)
(formula)/dividethis
divideme/(byme) "dont match/me hel d/b lo a/b" divideme/(byme)
"dont match/me"