Regular Expressions 101

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1st Alternative\bterm

\ba Unicode word boundary

termthe literal text term (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativeterm\b

termthe literal text term (case sensitive)

\ba Unicode word boundary

3rd Alternative\bterm\b

\ba Unicode word boundary

termthe literal text term (case sensitive)

\ba Unicode word boundary

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

\bterm|term\b|\bterm\b

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a term is <-- yes, space before and space after (two boundaries)
the terms are <-- yes, space before (one boundary)
the midterm was <-- yes, space after (one boundary)
the midterms were