Regular Expressions 101

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Group 1(cat\/)

catthe literal text cat (case sensitive)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

.+?any Unicode character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

Group 2(\d+)

\d+a Unicode decimal digit, repeated at least once

.+any Unicode character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

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

(cat\/).+?(\d+).+

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cat/badboy [3421]

cat/badboy [3421]