Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternative'(?:[sdmt]|ll|ve|re)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:[sdmt]|ll|ve|re)

1st Alternative[sdmt]

Character Class[sdmt]

sthe literal s (115₁₀ / 163₈ / 73₁₆) (case sensitive)

dthe literal d (100₁₀ / 144₈ / 64₁₆) (case sensitive)

mthe literal m (109₁₀ / 155₈ / 6D₁₆) (case sensitive)

tthe literal t (116₁₀ / 164₈ / 74₁₆) (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativell

llthe literal text ll (case sensitive)

3rd Alternativeve

vethe literal text ve (case sensitive)

4th Alternativere

rethe literal text re (case sensitive)

2nd Alternative ?\p{L}+

?optionally matches the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\p{L}+any Unicode letter, repeated at least once

3rd Alternative ?\p{N}+

?optionally matches the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\p{N}+a decimal digit, letterlike number, or other numeric character, repeated at least once

4th Alternative ?[^\s\p{L}\p{N}]+

?optionally matches the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\s\p{L}\p{N}]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\p{L}any Unicode letter

\p{N}a decimal digit, letterlike number, or other numeric character

5th Alternative\s+(?!\S)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Negative Lookahead(?!\S)

\Sany non-whitespace character

6th Alternative\s+

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

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

'(?:[sdmt]|ll|ve|re)| ?\p{L}+| ?\p{N}+| ?[^\s\p{L}\p{N}]+|\s+(?!\S)|\s+

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