Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

Group 1(.*?foo.*?)

.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

foothe literal text foo (case sensitive)

.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

foothe literal text foo (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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Search reference

Regular Expression

^(.*?foo.*?)foo

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foo bar bash 1 foo dash mesh 3 foo poly 3 for foo
foo tar hash 1 foo gash gesh 3 foo toly 3 vor foo
foo sar wash 1 foo rash nesh 3 foo koly 3 sor foo