Regular Expressions 101

Character Class[\w-]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\wany word character

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

Positive Lookahead(?=")

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

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

[\w-]+(?=")

New

"name":"John","name":"1-John", "name":"123", "name":"Jo-hnny","name":"A0-0s".

"name":"John","name":"1-John", "name":"123", "name":"Jo-hnny","name":"A0-0s".