Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

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

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Positive Lookahead(?=\bapp\b)

\ban ASCII word boundary

appthe literal text app (case sensitive)

\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

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

25 tokens

^\/.*\/(?=\bapp\b)

New

/User/username/Code/project/app/Controllers/MyClass.php
/User/username/Code/company_web_app/app/Controllers/MyClass.php

/User/username/Code/project/app/Controllers/MyClass.php
/User/username/Code/company_web_app/app/Controllers/MyClass.php