Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

^start of line

Negative Lookahead(?!.*\bjacket\b)

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

jacketthe literal text jacket (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

adidasthe literal text adidas (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

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

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

Match Information

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Quick Reference

25 tokens

Regular Expression

^(?!.*\bjacket\b).*\badidas\b.*

New

1. "I offer a jacket from adidas"
2. "I offer clothing from adidas, a jacket"
3. "By my adidas jacket"
4. "adidas jacket"
5. "jacket adidas"
6. "I offer some shoes from adidas"
7. "Selling some nice adidas shoes"
8. "I have some shoes from adidas"