Regular Expressions 101

Pro

\w*any word character, repeated any number of times

AAC Barcodethe literal text AAC Barcode (case sensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?:\s+and\s+|\W+)

1st Alternative\s+and\s+

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

andthe literal text and (case sensitive)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

2nd Alternative\W+

\W+any non-word character, repeated at least once

Descriptionthe literal text Description (case sensitive)

\w*any word character, repeated any number of times

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

\w*AAC Barcode(?:\s+and\s+|\W+)Description\w*

New

AAC Barcode + Descriptions
AAC Barcode + Description
AAC Barcode & Descriptions
AAC Barcode and Description

AAC Barcode + Descriptions
AAC Barcode + Description
AAC Barcode & Descriptions
AAC Barcode and Description