Regular Expressions 101

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Group 1(\w{2})

\w{2}any word character, repeated exactly 2 times

.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

\ban ASCII 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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26 tokens

(\w{2}).*?\b

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