Regular Expressions 101

{{the literal text {{

Group 1((?!contact\.firstName|contact\.lastName|contact\.phoneNumber|contact\.language)[^{}])*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Negative Lookahead(?!contact\.firstName|contact\.lastName|contact\.phoneNumber|contact\.language)

1st Alternativecontact\.firstName

contactthe literal text contact (case sensitive)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

firstNamethe literal text firstName (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativecontact\.lastName

contactthe literal text contact (case sensitive)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

lastNamethe literal text lastName (case sensitive)

3rd Alternativecontact\.phoneNumber

contactthe literal text contact (case sensitive)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

phoneNumberthe literal text phoneNumber (case sensitive)

4th Alternativecontact\.language

contactthe literal text contact (case sensitive)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

languagethe literal text language (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^{}]

{the literal { (123₁₀ / 173₈ / 7B₁₆)

}the literal } (125₁₀ / 175₈ / 7D₁₆)

}}the literal text }}

Global pattern flags

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

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Search reference

Regular Expression

{{((?!contact\.firstName|contact\.lastName|contact\.phoneNumber|contact\.language)[^{}])*}}

New

test {{debug}} {{contact.language}} test {{ {{ another word }} test {{test}} another {{contact.something}} {{contact.firstName}} {{contact.name}}