Regular Expressions 101

Character Class[A-Z]

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

Character Class[a-zA-Z]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

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

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

Positive Lookahead(?=\s*(?:[A-Z][a-zA-Z]*\s+)*Inc\.)

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Non-Capturing Group(?:[A-Z][a-zA-Z]*\s+)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Character Class[A-Z]

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

Character Class[a-zA-Z]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

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

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Incthe literal text Inc (case sensitive)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

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Regular Expression

[A-Z][a-zA-Z]*(?=\s*(?:[A-Z][a-zA-Z]*\s+)*Inc\.)

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