Regular Expressions 101

The the literal text The (case sensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?:really mighty splendid big )?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

really mighty splendid big the literal text really mighty splendid big (case sensitive)

Group Fruit(?P<Fruit>apple)

applethe literal text apple (case sensitive)

falls far from the treethe literal text falls far from the tree (case sensitive)

\s?optionally matches any whitespace character

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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25 tokens

Regular Expression

The (?:really mighty splendid big )?(?P<Fruit>apple) falls far from the tree\s?

New

The apple falls far from the tree
The really mighty splendid big apple falls far from the tree

The apple falls far from the tree
The really mighty splendid big apple falls far from the tree