Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternative".*?"(*SKIP)(?!)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

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

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

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

Negative Lookahead(?!) — always fails to match

2nd Alternative(?<!\w)'.*?'(?!\w)(*SKIP)(?!)

Negative Lookbehind(?<!\w)

\wany word character

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

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

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Negative Lookahead(?!\w)

\wany word character

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

Negative Lookahead(?!) — always fails to match

3rd Alternative[\w']+

Character Class[\w']+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\wany word character

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

Search reference

Regular Expression

".*?"(*SKIP)(?!)|(?<!\w)'.*?'(?!\w)(*SKIP)(?!)|[\w']+

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This is some text, it isn't limited by single quotes in words like "isn't" for instance.

Text quoted in "double quotes" will not be counted.
Text quoted in 'single quotes' won't be either.

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