⚠️ NOTE : If you have any questions regarding the content presented below, feel free to post them here . I will be happy to help anyway I can! Regex is a big passion of mine and I look forward to hearing from you. 😁 \b is a zero width assertion, meaning it doesn’t appear in resulting match but affects the outcome. the \b tries to match instances where a ‘word’ character transitions to a non word (for example white space). Example #1 Example #2 mOAR Regex 101-01: What are Regular Expressions? Regex 101-02: Literal Matches Regex 101-03: Character Classes Regex 101-04: Quantifiers Regex 101-05: Anchors Regex 101-06: Boundaries Regex 101-07: Alternation Regex 101-08: Iteration Regex 101-09: Metacharacters Regex 101-10: Capture Groups vs Non Capture Groups Regex 101-11: Lookarounds Regex 101-12: Inline Modifiers Regex 101-13: POSIX NOTE: If you have a regex question you can post it here !

Regex 101-06: Boundaries

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Regex 101-06: Boundaries

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\b is a zero width assertion, meaning it doesn’t appear in resulting match but affects the outcome. the \b tries to match instances where a ‘word’ character transitions to a non word (for example white
space).

Example #1

Example #2

mOAR

Regex 101-01: What are Regular Expressions?
Regex 101-02: Literal Matches
Regex 101-03: Character Classes
Regex 101-04: Quantifiers
Regex 101-05: Anchors
Regex 101-06: Boundaries
Regex 101-07: Alternation
Regex 101-08: Iteration
Regex 101-09: Metacharacters
Regex 101-10: Capture Groups vs Non Capture Groups
Regex 101-11: Lookarounds
Regex 101-12: Inline Modifiers
Regex 101-13: POSIX

NOTE: If you have a regex question you can post it here!

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