Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

\ba Unicode word boundary

full name the literal text full name (case sensitive)

\|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\ba Unicode word boundary

Group 1(.*)

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

\ba Unicode word boundary

date of birth the literal text date of birth (case sensitive)

\|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\ba Unicode word boundary

Group 2(.*)

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

\ba Unicode word boundary

place of birth the literal text place of birth (case sensitive)

\|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\ba Unicode word boundary

Group 3(.*)

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

\ba Unicode word boundary

date of death the literal text date of death (case sensitive)

\|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\ba Unicode word boundary

Group 4(.*)

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

\ba Unicode word boundary

place of death the literal text place of death (case sensitive)

\|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\ba Unicode word boundary

Group 5(.*)

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

Match Information

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Quick Reference

25 tokens

Regular Expression

\bfull name \| \b(.*)\bdate of birth \| \b(.*)\bplace of birth \| \b(.*)\bdate of death \| \b(.*)\bplace of death \| \b(.*)

full name | Nguy\:1ec5n Sinh Cung date of birth | Monday, May 19, 1890 (125 years ago) place of birth | Vietnam date of death | Tuesday, September 2, 1969 (age: 79 years)   (46 years ago) place of death | Hanoi, Red River Delta

Extraction

full name | Nguy\:1ec5n Sinh Cung date of birth | Monday, May 19, 1890 (125 years ago) place of birth | Vietnam date of death | Tuesday, September 2, 1969 (age: 79 years)   (46 years ago) place of death | Hanoi, Red River Delta