Regular Expressions 101

Negative Lookbehind(?<!\S)

\Sany non-whitespace character

Character Class[a-zA-Z]*

*matches any number of characters 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)

Character Class[:/]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Character Class[\w-]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\wany word character

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

\.+the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆) , repeated at least once

Character Class[\w:./%&=?-]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\wany word character

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

%the literal % (37₁₀ / 45₈ / 25₁₆)

&the literal & (38₁₀ / 46₈ / 26₁₆)

=the literal = (61₁₀ / 75₈ / 3D₁₆)

?the literal ? (63₁₀ / 77₈ / 3F₁₆)

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

Negative Lookahead(?!\S)

\Sany non-whitespace character

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

(?<!\S)[a-zA-Z]*[:/]*[\w-]+\.+[\w:./%&=?-]+(?!\S)

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