Regular Expressions 101

^start of string

Non-Capturing Group(?:[\s\S]*)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

Character Class[\s\S]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?:"([\s\S]+)")|(?:'([\s\S]+)'))

1st Alternative(?:"([\s\S]+)")

Non-Capturing Group(?:"([\s\S]+)")

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 1([\s\S]+)

Character Class[\s\S]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

2nd Alternative(?:'([\s\S]+)')

Non-Capturing Group(?:'([\s\S]+)')

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Group 2([\s\S]+)

Character Class[\s\S]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:[\s\S]*)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

Character Class[\s\S]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?:"([\s\S]+)")|(?:'([\s\S]+)'))

1st Alternative(?:"([\s\S]+)")

Non-Capturing Group(?:"([\s\S]+)")

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 3([\s\S]+)

Character Class[\s\S]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

2nd Alternative(?:'([\s\S]+)')

Non-Capturing Group(?:'([\s\S]+)')

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Group 4([\s\S]+)

Character Class[\s\S]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:[\s\S]+)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

Character Class[\s\S]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

$end of string, or before its final line terminator

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

^(?:[\s\S]*)?(?:(?:"([\s\S]+)")|(?:'([\s\S]+)'))(?:[\s\S]*)?(?:(?:"([\s\S]+)")|(?:'([\s\S]+)'))(?:[\s\S]+)?$

New

'Two' 'singles'

Extraction

'Two' 'singles'