Regular Expressions 101

Pro

1st Alternative$.*?$

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

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

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

2nd Alternative(\w+)

Group 1(\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

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

\(.*?\)|(\w+)

New

Word1 Word2 word3 (some words in brackets)
Word1 (some words in brackets)
word1, Word2 (some words in brackets)

Word1 Word2 word3 (some words in brackets)
Word1 (some words in brackets)
word1, Word2 (some words in brackets)