Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Non-Capturing Group(?:Public )?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

Public the literal text Public (case sensitive)

Footpaththe literal text Footpath (case sensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?: No\.)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

Nothe literal text No (case sensitive)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?: #?[0-9]+)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

#?optionally matches the literal # (35₁₀ / 43₈ / 23₁₆)

Character Class[0-9]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

$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

^(?:Public )?Footpath(?: No\.)?(?: #?[0-9]+)?$

New

Footpath
Public Footpath
Footpath No. 27001
Public Footpath No. 125
Footpath #424
Public Footpath #5

Footpath
Public Footpath
Footpath No. 27001
Public Footpath No. 125
Footpath #424
Public Footpath #5