Regular Expressions 101

Non-Capturing Group(?:"[^"]+"[^"]+?)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"]+?

+?matches at least one character outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 1(\bdog\b)

\ban ASCII word boundary

dogthe literal text dog (case insensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

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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25 tokens

Regular Expression

(?:"[^"]+"[^"]+?)?(\bdog\b)

New

Dog sighed. "I'm no super dog, nor special dog," said Dog, "I'm an ordinary dog, now leave me alone!" Dog pushed him away and made his way to the other dog.

Substitution

Dog sighed. "I'm no super dog, nor special dog," said Dog, "I'm an ordinary dog, now leave me alone!" Dog pushed him away and made his way to the other dog.