Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternative^.*?bananas.*(*SKIP)(*FAIL)

^start of line

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

bananasthe literal text bananas (case insensitive)

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

(*SKIP)acts like (*PRUNE), but the next unanchored match attempt starts where (*SKIP) was reached instead of at the next subject character

(*FAIL)forces the current match attempt to fail at this position

2nd Alternativeapples

applesthe literal text apples (case insensitive)

3rd Alternativeoranges

orangesthe literal text oranges (case insensitive)

Global pattern flags

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

i modifier: insensitive. Matches without distinguishing uppercase and lowercase letters

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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Regular Expression

^.*?bananas.*(*SKIP)(*FAIL)|apples|oranges

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only apples
only oranges
only bananas
bananas and apples and oranges
apples and bananas and oranges