Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

1st Alternative(car( [^ ]*){1,10} house)

Group 1(car( [^ ]*){1,10} house)

carthe literal text car (case sensitive)

Group 2( [^ ]*){1,10}

{1,10}repeats the group contents below between 1 and 10 times:

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^ ]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

housethe literal text house (case sensitive)

2nd Alternative(house( [^ ]*){1,10} car)

Group 3(house( [^ ]*){1,10} car)

housethe literal text house (case sensitive)

Group 4( [^ ]*){1,10}

{1,10}repeats the group contents below between 1 and 10 times:

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^ ]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

carthe literal text car (case sensitive)

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

Match Information

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Quick Reference

25 tokens

Regular Expression

(car( [^ ]*){1,10} house)|(house( [^ ]*){1,10} car)

New

car word1 word2 word3 word4 word5 word6 word7 word8 word9 word10 house
house word1 word2 word3 word4 word5 word6 word7 word8 word9 word10 car
house word1 word2 word3 word4 word5 word6 word7 word8 word9 word10 word 11 car