Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

^start of line

Group 1(.*?)

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

the literal text

Group 2(.*?)

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

the literal text

Group 3(.*?)

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

$end of line

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

^(.*?)    (.*?)    (.*?)$

word 1    wo rd2    
wo rd1        wor d3
    wo rd2    wo rd3
        
    hui   l

word 1    wo rd2    
wo rd1        wor d3
    wo rd2    wo rd3
        
    hui   l