Regular Expressions 101

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Group 1( .* \b(why|what)\b .* \? ){2,}

{2,}repeats the group contents below at least 2 times:

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

Group 2(why|what)

1st Alternativewhy

whythe literal text why (case insensitive)

2nd Alternativewhat

whatthe literal text what (case insensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

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

\?the literal ? (63₁₀ / 77₈ / 3F₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

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

x modifier: extended. Ignores unescaped whitespace and comments outside character classes

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

(
.*
\b(why|what)\b
.*
\?
){2,}


1) What I love u? Look at me. Why I love u?
3) Why do you look at me?
4) Are you alright?
5) I am sick. How are you?. Well you do not have to answer it. what's up?
6) How are you? I am sick. What's up? Well you do not have to answer it. 
7) Why I love u?
8) Any questions? No. Why not? Sure? Ok?
9) Jesus christ. You know what, do I love u? Look at me! Why I love u?
10) what do you want? what do you mean?