Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

\ba Unicode word boundary

HONOURABLEthe literal text HONOURABLE (case sensitive)

\s+a Unicode whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group 1((?:THE|MR|MS|DR)\b[^,]*)

Non-Capturing Group(?:THE|MR|MS|DR)

1st AlternativeTHE

THEthe literal text THE (case sensitive)

2nd AlternativeMR

MRthe literal text MR (case sensitive)

3rd AlternativeMS

MSthe literal text MS (case sensitive)

4th AlternativeDR

DRthe literal text DR (case sensitive)

\ba Unicode word boundary

Negated Character Class[^,]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

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

\bHONOURABLE\s+((?:THE|MR|MS|DR)\b[^,]*)

New

HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. JUSTICE
VIKRAM NATH,HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ASHUTOSH
J. SHASTRI, HONOURABLE MS. ADITI GUPTA

HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. JUSTICE
VIKRAM NATH,HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ASHUTOSH
J. SHASTRI, HONOURABLE MS. ADITI GUPTA