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"

Substitution

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"