Regular Expressions 101

Group 1('[^']*?(?:\\'[^']*?)*'|[^\s]+)

1st Alternative'[^']*?(?:\\'[^']*?)*'

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^']*?

*?matches any number of characters outside the set below:

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:\\'[^']*?)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^']*?

*?matches any number of characters outside the set below:

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

2nd Alternative[^\s]+

Negated Character Class[^\s]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\sany whitespace character

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

i modifier: insensitive. Matches without distinguishing uppercase and lowercase letters

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Regular Expression

('[^']*?(?:\\'[^']*?)*'|[^\s]+)

New

Discerning between 'the single quote\'s double purpose' as a 'quote marker', like ", and a 'a cotraction\'s marker.'.

If you asked the author and he was speaking in the third person, he would say 'CFQueryParam\'s example is contrived, and he knew that but he had the world\'s most difficult time thinking up an example.'

Substitution

**`$1`**,