Regular Expressions 101

Pro

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

Group 1(foo(?:(?!foo|bar).)+bar)

foothe literal text foo (case sensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?!foo|bar).)+

+repeats the group contents below at least once:

Negative Lookahead(?!foo|bar)

1st Alternativefoo

foothe literal text foo (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativebar

barthe literal text bar (case sensitive)

.any character (except for line terminators)

barthe literal text bar (case sensitive)

Global pattern flags

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

.*(foo(?:(?!foo|bar).)+bar)

New

some text here foo bar word foo bar word foo word bar word foo word bar foo word bar more text here

some text here foo bar word foo bar word foo word bar word foo word bar foo word bar more text here