Regular Expressions 101

Let's startthe literal text Let's start (case sensitive)

Group 1(.*[\r\n])*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

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

Character Class[\r\n]

\ra carriage return (ASCII 13)

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

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

my friendthe literal text my friend (case sensitive)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

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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Regular Expression

Let's start(.*[\r\n])*.*my friend\.

New

How much wood? Who knew! Let's start! ... blah, blah, blah...
How much 

longer? It's joe's place*, isn't it?
This is! [the end], my friend.  Ok, Let's do some more testing.

Regular Expression

Extraction