Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Positive Lookahead(?=.*(?:poverty|poor))

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

Non-Capturing Group(?:poverty|poor)

1st Alternativepoverty

povertythe literal text poverty (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativepoor

poorthe literal text poor (case sensitive)

Positive Lookahead(?=.*extreme)

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

extremethe literal text extreme (case sensitive)

Positive Lookahead(?=.*(?:eradicat|end|reduc|alleviat))

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

Non-Capturing Group(?:eradicat|end|reduc|alleviat)

1st Alternativeeradicat

eradicatthe literal text eradicat (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativeend

endthe literal text end (case sensitive)

3rd Alternativereduc

reducthe literal text reduc (case sensitive)

4th Alternativealleviat

alleviatthe literal text alleviat (case sensitive)

.+any character (except for line terminators), 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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25 tokens

^(?=.*(?:poverty|poor))(?=.*extreme)(?=.*(?:eradicat|end|reduc|alleviat)).+

New

Test poor and extreme and end

poor end test extreme

poor end test extrem

Test poor and extreme and end

poor end test extreme

poor end test extrem