Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

APPLEthe literal text APPLE (case sensitive)

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

PIEthe literal text PIE (case sensitive)

Character Class[\s\d]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\da digit

Negated Character Class[^-]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

$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

^.*\bAPPLE.*\bPIE[\s\d]*[^-]*$

New

SWEET APPLE 1 - PIE 2
SWEET APPLE 1 - PIE 2 IS GOOD
SWEET APPLE 1 - PIE3
SWEET APPLE 1 - PIE 1-3 IS GOOD