Regular Expressions 101

Pro

\ban ASCII word boundary

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\ban ASCII word boundary

Non-Capturing Group(?:.*?\b\w+\b){2}

{2}repeats the group contents below exactly 2 times:

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\ban ASCII word boundary

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

\b\w+\b(?:.*?\b\w+\b){2}

New

foo bar buz
foo bar
bar
buz bar foo foobar

foo bar buz
foo bar
bar
buz bar foo foobar