Regular Expressions 101

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

Positive Lookahead(?=[^][A-Za-z]*[A-Za-z])

Negated Character Class[^][A-Za-z]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

Character Class[A-Za-z]

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

Positive Lookahead(?=[^][]*[^[:^alpha:]A-Za-z])

Negated Character Class[^][]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^[:^alpha:]A-Za-z]

[:^alpha:]any character not matched by [:alpha:]

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^][]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

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

u modifier: unicode. Treats the pattern and subject as UTF-16

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

\[(?=[^][A-Za-z]*[A-Za-z])(?=[^][]*[^[:^alpha:]A-Za-z])[^][]*]

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