Regular Expressions 101

(?s)applies the following effective flags to the remainder of the pattern: gms

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

abcthe literal text abc (case sensitive)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

efgthe literal text efg (case sensitive)

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

(?s)abc.*?efg

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blah blah..
blah blah..
blah abc blah
blah blah..
blah blah..
blah blah..
blah efg1 blah blah
blah blah..
blah blah..
blah efg2 blah blah
blah blah..
blah blah..