Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Negative Lookbehind(?<!\w)

\wa Unicode word character

Non-Capturing Group(?::\)|I've\ been|asp\w*)

1st Alternative:\)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

2nd AlternativeI've\ been

I'vethe literal text I've (case sensitive)

\ the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

beenthe literal text been (case sensitive)

3rd Alternativeasp\w*

aspthe literal text asp (case sensitive)

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

Negative Lookahead(?!\w)

\wa Unicode word character

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)(?::\)|I've\ been|asp\w*)(?!\w)

New

I've been bad but I aspire to be a better person, and behave like my dog and cat :)

I've been bad but I aspire to be a better person, and behave like my dog and cat :)