Regular Expressions 101

Pro

<new_gen>the literal text <new_gen> (case sensitive)

\sa Unicode whitespace character

Group 1(\w+)

\w+a Unicode word character, repeated at least once

\sa Unicode whitespace character

<gen>the literal text <gen> (case sensitive)

\sa Unicode whitespace character

Group 2(\w+(?:\s<gen>\s\w+)*)

\w+a Unicode word character, repeated at least once

Non-Capturing Group(?:\s<gen>\s\w+)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

\sa Unicode whitespace character

<gen>the literal text <gen> (case sensitive)

\sa Unicode whitespace character

\w+a Unicode 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

<new_gen>\s(\w+)\s<gen>\s(\w+(?:\s<gen>\s\w+)*)

New

<bos> <new_gen> ent1 <gen> rel1_ent1 <gen> rel2_ent1 <new_gen> ent2 <gen> rel1_ent2 <eos>