Regular Expressions 101

Explanation
Pro

abcthe literal text abc (case sensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?!abc).)*?

*?repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Negative Lookahead(?!abc)

abcthe literal text abc (case sensitive)

.any Unicode character

bffthe literal text bff (case sensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?!abc).)*?

*?repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Negative Lookahead(?!abc)

abcthe literal text abc (case sensitive)

.any Unicode character

ccathe literal text cca (case sensitive)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

Match Information

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Quick Reference

25 tokens

Regular Expression

abc(?:(?!abc).)*?bff(?:(?!abc).)*?cca

New

...abc...bff...abc.
..bff..
.cca...
...abc...bff...abc.
..bff..
.cca...

...abc...bff...abc.
..bff.. bff...
.cca...

...abc...bff...abc.
..bff.. abc bff...
.cca...