Regular Expressions 101

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^start of line

Group 1(.*?)

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

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Non-Capturing Group(?:department|school)

1st Alternativedepartment

departmentthe literal text department (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativeschool

schoolthe literal text school (case sensitive)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

ofthe literal text of (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

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

^(.*?)\s*(?:department|school)\s+of\b

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pomona college department of chemistry
rutgers college school of engineering chemical engineering

pomona college department of chemistry
rutgers college school of engineering chemical engineering