Regular Expressions 101

Non-Capturing Group(?:lazy_)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

lazy_the literal text lazy_ (case sensitive)

gtxtthe literal text gtxt (case sensitive)

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

Group 1([\"'])

Character Class[\"']

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?!\1)[^\\]|\\.)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

1st Alternative(?!\1)[^\\]

Negative Lookahead(?!\1)

\1the text saved by group 1

Negated Character Class[^\\]

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

2nd Alternative\\.

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

.any Unicode character (except for line terminators)

\1the text saved by group 1

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

Global pattern flags

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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

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Search reference

Regular Expression

(?:lazy_)?gtxt\(([\"'])(?:(?!\1)[^\\]|\\.)*\1\)

New

gtxt('hi there "bob"') how are you gtxt('i am fine')
gtxt('hi there \'bob\'') how are you gtxt("i am fine")
gtxt("hi there \"bob")