Regular Expressions 101

Explanation
Pro

Character Class[a-zA-Z]

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

Character Class[a-zA-Z]

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

Group 1(.[a-zA-Z0-9])+

+repeats the group contents below at least once:

.any character (except for line terminators)

Character Class[a-zA-Z0-9]

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

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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26 tokens

[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z](.[a-zA-Z0-9])+

New

a
aa
aaa
aaaa
aaaaa
aaaaaa
aaaaaaa
aaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaa

a
aa
aaa
aaaa
aaaaa
aaaaaa
aaaaaaa
aaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaa