Regular Expressions 101

Non-Capturing Group(?:\G(?!^)|\bpassport\b)

1st Alternative\G(?!^)

\Gstart of current search

Negative Lookahead(?!^)

^start of string

2nd Alternative\bpassport\b

\ban ASCII word boundary

passportthe literal text passport (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

Group 1([a-zA-Z]{0,2}\d{6,12}[a-zA-Z]{0,2})

Character Class[a-zA-Z]{0,2}

{0,2}matches between 0 and 2 characters from the set below:

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

\d{6,12}a digit, repeated between 6 and 12 times

Character Class[a-zA-Z]{0,2}

{0,2}matches between 0 and 2 characters from the set below:

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

Global pattern flags

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

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Search reference

Regular Expression

(?:\G(?!^)|\bpassport\b).*?\b([a-zA-Z]{0,2}\d{6,12}[a-zA-Z]{0,2})\b

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my friends passport numbers are V123456, V123457 and V123458