Jun 1, 2017 · Specifically when does ^ mean "match start" and when does it mean "not the following" in regular expressions? From the Wikipedia article and other references, I've …

Javascript RegExp () allows you to specify a multi-line mode (m) which changes the behavior of ^ and $. ^ represents the start of the current line in multi-line mode, otherwise the start of the …

In case it is JS it indicates the start and end of the regex, like quotes for strings. stackoverflow.com/questions/15661969/…

Dec 8, 2018 · The regex compiles fine, and there are already JUnit tests that show how it works. It's just that I'm a bit confused about why the first question mark and colon are there.

Repetition in regex by default is greedy: they try to match as many reps as possible, and when this doesn't work and they have to backtrack, they try to match one fewer rep at a time, until a …

59 That regex "\\s*,\\s*" means: \s* any number of whitespace characters a comma \s* any number of whitespace characters which will split on commas and consume any spaces either …

For reference, from regular-expressions.info/dot.html: "JavaScript and VBScript do not have an option to make the dot match line break characters. In those languages, you can use a …

In regex in general, ^ is negation only at the beginning of a character class. Unless CMake is doing something really funky (to the point where calling their pattern matching language …

How do I make an expression to match absolutely anything (including whitespaces)? Example: Regex: I bought _____ sheep. Matches: I bought sheep. I bought a sheep. I bought five …

Jan 2, 1999 · Parentheses in regular expressions define groups, which is why you need to escape the parentheses to match the literal characters. So to modify the groups just remove all of the …