Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Negative Lookahead(?!.*\bins[a-z.]*\s)

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

insthe literal text ins (case sensitive)

Character Class[a-z.]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

\sany whitespace character

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

premiumthe literal text premium (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

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

^(?!.*\bins[a-z.]*\s).*\bpremium\b

New

Data have;
text = 'insurance premium'; output;
text = 'insur. premium'; output;
text = 'premium. insur aa'; output;
text = 'premium card'; output;
text = 'sales premium'; output;
Run;

Extraction

Data have;
text = 'insurance premium'; output;
text = 'insur. premium'; output;
text = 'premium. insur aa'; output;
text = 'premium card'; output;
text = 'sales premium'; output;
Run;