Regular Expressions 101

\ban ASCII word boundary

Non-Capturing Group(?:passed|died)

1st Alternativepassed

passedthe literal text passed (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativedied

diedthe literal text died (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

Negated Character Class[^.?!]*?

*?matches any number of characters outside the set below:

.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

?the literal ? (63₁₀ / 77₈ / 3F₁₆)

!the literal ! (33₁₀ / 41₈ / 21₁₆)

\ban ASCII word boundary

Group 1(\w+\s*\d{1,2},\s?\d{4})

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

\d{1,2}a digit, repeated between 1 and 2 times

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

\s?optionally matches any whitespace character

\d{4}a digit, repeated exactly 4 times

Negative Lookahead(?!\d)

\da digit

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

\b(?:passed|died)\b[^.?!]*?\b(\w+\s*\d{1,2},\s?\d{4})(?!\d)

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Worth Scattergood (Dee) Lea passed on Thursday, July 28, 2022, Worth Scattergood (Dee) Lea passed away unexpectedly at age 88 with her three daughters at her side. Dee was born on April 26, 1934, in Radnor, Pennsylvania