Regular Expressions 101

#the literal # (35₁₀ / 43₈ / 23₁₆)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Non-Capturing Group(?:[\/.]\w+)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

Character Class[\/.]

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

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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Regular Expression

#\w+(?:[\/.]\w+)?

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I'm trying to match a string using regex that sometimes contains a forward slash in it it /.

This is an example string. Armor Wars #1/2

But it could also be Armor Wars #1 or Armor Wars #25.2 or Armor Wars #5.NOW virtually anything

Regular Expression

Extraction