Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(department(s)? of |in\n)

1st Alternativedepartment(s)? of

departmentthe literal text department (case sensitive)

Group 2(s)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

sthe literal s (115₁₀ / 163₈ / 73₁₆) (case sensitive)

of the literal text of (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativein\n

inthe literal text in (case sensitive)

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

Group 3(\w+ ?\w+[^,]?\w+[^,]?\w+[ ]?\w+[ ]?\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

?optionally matches the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Negated Character Class[^,]?

?matches at most one character outside the set below:

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Negated Character Class[^,]?

?matches at most one character outside the set below:

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Character Class[ ]?

?matches at most one character from the set below:

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Character Class[ ]?

?matches at most one character from the set below:

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

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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Regular Expression

(department(s)? of |in\n)(\w+ ?\w+[^,]?\w+[^,]?\w+[ ]?\w+[ ]?\w+)

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