Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

Group 1(jack\b.*\bjames|james\b.*\bjack)

1st Alternativejack\b.*\bjames

jackthe literal text jack (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

jamesthe literal text james (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativejames\b.*\bjack

jamesthe literal text james (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

jackthe literal text jack (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

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

$end of line

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

^.*\b(jack\b.*\bjames|james\b.*\bjack)\b.*$

New

hi jack here is james whats up

'hi james here is jack whats up