Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Negative Lookahead(?![\+\-\*\/\^\s])

Character Class[\+\-\*\/\^\s]

\+the literal + (43₁₀ / 53₈ / 2B₁₆)

\-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

\*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

\^the literal ^ (94₁₀ / 136₈ / 5E₁₆)

\sany whitespace character

Group 1([a-zA-Z0-9]+)

Character Class[a-zA-Z0-9]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

\^the literal ^ (94₁₀ / 136₈ / 5E₁₆)

Group 2([a-zA-Z0-9]+)

Character Class[a-zA-Z0-9]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

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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26 tokens

(?![\+\-\*\/\(\)\^\s])([a-zA-Z0-9]+)\^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)

New

w*x^2 +5^9

w*x^2 +5^9