Regular Expressions 101

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1st Alternative(?:^.*)(ACME)(?:.*$)?

Non-Capturing Group(?:^.*)

^start of line

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

Group 1(ACME)

ACMEthe literal text ACME (case sensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?:.*$)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

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

$end of line

2nd Alternative(?:^.*)(Broadway)(?:.*$)

Non-Capturing Group(?:^.*)

^start of line

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

Group 2(Broadway)

Broadwaythe literal text Broadway (case sensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?:.*$)

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

$end of line

3rd Alternative^.*$

^start of line

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

$end of line

Global pattern flags

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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

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25 tokens

(?:^.*)(ACME)(?:.*$)?|(?:^.*)(Broadway)(?:.*$)|^.*$

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ACME Corp 123
Corp 742 ACME
Random Text
Broadway 1785 FB
ACME Corp 123
Corp 742 ACME
Random Text
Broadway 1785 FB

ACME Corp 123
Corp 742 ACME
Random Text
Broadway 1785 FB
ACME Corp 123
Corp 742 ACME
Random Text
Broadway 1785 FB