Regular Expressions 101

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

Non-Capturing Group(?:[_-]ben|ben[_-])

1st Alternative[_-]ben

Character Class[_-]

_the literal _ (95₁₀ / 137₈ / 5F₁₆)

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

benthe literal text ben (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativeben[_-]

benthe literal text ben (case sensitive)

Character Class[_-]

_the literal _ (95₁₀ / 137₈ / 5F₁₆)

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

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

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

Regular Expression

.*(?:[_-]ben|ben[_-]).*

New

a-ben
a_ben
ben-test
a-ben-test
a_ben-test
abentest
bentest
aben

a-ben
a_ben
ben-test
a-ben-test
a_ben-test
abentest
bentest
aben