Regular Expressions 101

Pro

1st Alternative\[.*?\](*SKIP)(*FAIL)

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

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

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

(*SKIP)acts like (*PRUNE), but the next unanchored match attempt starts where (*SKIP) was reached instead of at the next subject character

(*FAIL)forces the current match attempt to fail at this position

2nd Alternative(\W)(vitae)(\W)

Group 1(\W)

\Wany non-word character

Group 2(vitae)

vitaethe literal text vitae (case insensitive)

Group 3(\W)

\Wany non-word 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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25 tokens

\[.*?\](*SKIP)(*FAIL)|(\W)(vitae)(\W)

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