Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternative[a-zA-Z]+'[a-zA-Z]+?

Character Class[a-zA-Z]+

+matches at least one character 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)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Character Class[a-zA-Z]+?

+?matches at least one character 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)

2nd Alternative[a-zA-Z]+

Character Class[a-zA-Z]+

+matches at least one character 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)

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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Regular Expression

[a-zA-Z]+'[a-zA-Z]+?|[a-zA-Z]+

New

Hello my name is Cole. I can't believe this is really working
'Let's try this now'
!@#$%^&*()_+-=[]\{}|;':"`~,./<>?