Regular Expressions 101

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

Thisthe literal text This (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Group 1(.*?)

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

herethe literal text here (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

youthe literal text you (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Group 2(.*?)

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

codingthe literal text coding (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

orthe literal text or (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Group 3(.*)

.*any character (except for line terminators), 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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26 tokens

.*?\bThis\b\s*(.*?)\bhere\b.*?\byou\b\s*(.*?)\bcoding\b.*?\bor\b\s*(.*)

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