Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(nintendo|pc|playstation|xbox)

1st Alternativenintendo

nintendothe literal text nintendo (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativepc

pcthe literal text pc (case sensitive)

3rd Alternativeplaystation

playstationthe literal text playstation (case sensitive)

4th Alternativexbox

xboxthe literal text xbox (case sensitive)

Character Class[\/]

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Group 3(type\:(article|opinion|reivew|media))

typethe literal text type (case sensitive)

\:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

Group 4(article|opinion|reivew|media)

1st Alternativearticle

articlethe literal text article (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativeopinion

opinionthe literal text opinion (case sensitive)

3rd Alternativereivew

reivewthe literal text reivew (case sensitive)

4th Alternativemedia

mediathe literal text media (case sensitive)

Character Class[\/]

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

sortthe literal text sort (case sensitive)

\:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

1st Alternativedate-desc

date-descthe literal text date-desc (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativedate-asc

date-ascthe literal text date-asc (case sensitive)

3rd Alternativeviews-desc

views-descthe literal text views-desc (case sensitive)

4th Alternativeviews-asc

views-ascthe literal text views-asc (case sensitive)

5th Alternativecomments-desc

comments-descthe literal text comments-desc (case sensitive)

6th Alternativecomments-asc

comments-ascthe literal text comments-asc (case sensitive)

Global pattern flags

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

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

Search reference

Regular Expression

(nintendo|pc|playstation|xbox)[\/]((type\:(article|opinion|reivew|media))[\/](sort\:(date-desc|date-asc|views-desc|views-asc|comments-desc|comments-asc)))

Test String
New

xbox/type:article/sort:date-desc
nintendo/type:media/sort:comments-asc
pc/sort:views-desc
playstation/type:opinion/
playstation/sort:views-asc
xbox/sort:views-asc/type:article
playstation/type:media/sort:views-asc
xbox

Regular Expression

Test StringNew

Test String
New