Regular Expressions 101

Pro

1st Alternative(\s"\S+"(?:\p{P}|\s))

Group 1(\s"\S+"(?:\p{P}|\s))

\sany whitespace character

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

\S+any non-whitespace character, repeated at least once

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:\p{P}|\s)

1st Alternative\p{P}

\p{P}a punctuation character

2nd Alternative\s

\sany whitespace character

2nd Alternative"

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

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25 tokens

(\s"\S+"(?:\p{P}|\s))|"

this i"s a "test" word i"s"s. NOt a "test".

this i"s a "test" word i"s"s. NOt a "test".