Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternative#.*(*SKIP)(*F)

#the literal # (35₁₀ / 43₈ / 23₁₆)

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

(*SKIP)acts like (*PRUNE), but the next unanchored match attempt starts where (*SKIP) was reached instead of at the next subject character

(*F)forces the current match attempt to fail at this position

2nd Alternativebbb

bbbthe literal text bbb (case sensitive)

3rd Alternativeccc

cccthe literal text ccc (case sensitive)

Global pattern flags

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

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

#.*(*SKIP)(*F)|bbb|ccc

New

aaa bbb ccc ddd eee
#aaa bbb ccc ddd eee
#aaa bbb ccc ddd eee
aaa bbb ccc ddd eee

aaa bbb ccc ddd eee
#aaa bbb ccc ddd eee
#aaa bbb ccc ddd eee
aaa bbb ccc ddd eee