Regular Expressions 101

Pro

\_the literal _ (95₁₀ / 137₈ / 5F₁₆)

Negative Lookahead(?!.*\bby\b)

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

bythe literal text by (case insensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

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

$end of string, or before its final line terminator

Global pattern flags

i modifier: insensitive. Matches without distinguishing uppercase and lowercase letters

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25 tokens

\_(?!.*\bby\b).*?$

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Go by the office and pickup milk by the safeway BY_tomorrow

Go by the office and pickup milk by the safeway BY_tomorrow