Regular Expressions 101

Pro

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

q=the literal text q= (case sensitive)

Group 1(.*)

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

Group 2(-*)

-*the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆) , 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

.*?q=(.*)(-*)

New

http://example.com/mobile/?q=search-words
http://example.com/?q=search-words2
http://example.com/mobile/?q=searchwords3&f=7&p=14&start=20

/?s=$1

http://example.com/mobile/?q=search-words
http://example.com/?q=search-words2
http://example.com/mobile/?q=searchwords3&f=7&p=14&start=20