Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

\*?optionally matches the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\*?optionally matches the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

$end of line

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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25 tokens

^\*?\w+\*?$

New

ALLOW

*string*
*string
string*
string

DENY

*str*ing*
*str*ing
str*ing*
str*ing
*string**

ALLOW

*string*
*string
string*
string

DENY

*str*ing*
*str*ing
str*ing*
str*ing
*string**