Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

Character Class[a-zA-Z]

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?:[a-zA-Z\.\s][^\n]*)

Character Class[a-zA-Z\.\s]

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

\sany whitespace character

Negated Character Class[^\n]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

Character Class[a-zA-Z]

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

$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

Regular Expression

^[a-zA-Z](?:[a-zA-Z\.\s][^\n]*)[a-zA-Z]$

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 First name
First name 
First name
8First name
First name8
First name last name

Some.name with spaces

 First name
First name 
First name
8First name
First name8
First name last name

Some.name with spaces