Regular Expressions 101

Explanation
Pro

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 1(.+?)

.+?any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

Negative Lookbehind(?<!\\)

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

\h+any horizontal whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group 2(\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\h+any horizontal whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group 3(\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

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25 tokens

"(.+?)(?<!\\)"\h+(\w+)\h+(\w+)

New

"hello \"great\" friend" var1 var2