Regular Expressions 101

Character Class[\s"]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 1(\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Character Class[\s"]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 2(\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Character Class[\s"]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 3(\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Character Class[\s"]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 4(\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Character Class[\s"]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 5(\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Character Class[\s"]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 6(\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Character Class[\s"]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 7(\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Character Class[\s"]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

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Search reference

Regular Expression

[\s"]*(\w+)[\s"]+(\w+)[\s"]+(\w+)[\s"]+(\w+)[\s"]+(\w+)[\s"]+(\w+)[\s"]+(\w+)[\s"]*

New

word1 word2 word3 word4 word5 "word6" "word7"
word1 word2 word3 word4 word5 "word6" "word7"
"word1" word2 "word3" word4 word5 "word6" "word7"

Regular Expression

Extraction