Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternative(?<=`)\w+

Positive Lookbehind(?<=`)

`the literal ` (96₁₀ / 140₈ / 60₁₆)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

2nd Alternative(?<=^`.*[^{}\r\n]+)\b[^{}` \r\n]+

Positive Lookbehind(?<=^`.*[^{}\r\n]+)

^start of line

`the literal ` (96₁₀ / 140₈ / 60₁₆)

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

Negated Character Class[^{}\r\n]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

{the literal { (123₁₀ / 173₈ / 7B₁₆)

}the literal } (125₁₀ / 175₈ / 7D₁₆)

\ra carriage return (ASCII 13)

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

\ban ASCII word boundary

Negated Character Class[^{}` \r\n]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

{the literal { (123₁₀ / 173₈ / 7B₁₆)

}the literal } (125₁₀ / 175₈ / 7D₁₆)

`the literal ` (96₁₀ / 140₈ / 60₁₆)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\ra carriage return (ASCII 13)

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

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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Search reference

Regular Expression

(?<=`)\w+|(?<=^`.*[^{}\r\n]+)\b[^{}` \r\n]+

Test String
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old: ^[`]\K  |  (?<=\G) (?>{.*?}|[^`]) \K [^{}`]+
`{string} with {exluded} words 12 nums`
oops
`string {with} {exluded} words 12 nums`
`string ww {exluded} words 12 nums`
"quoted {string} with {exluded} words and 12 nums"
"quoted string {with} exluded {words} and {12} nums"
quoted {string} with {exluded} words and 12 nums
quoted string {with} exluded {words} and {12} nums

Regular Expression

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