What does this regex do?

A regular expression (shortened as regex or regexp; also referred to as rational expression) is a sequence of characters that specifies a search pattern in text . Usually such patterns are used by string-searching algorithms for “find” or “find and replace” operations on strings, or for input validation.

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What are regex flags?

A flag is an optional parameter to a regex that modifies its behavior of searching . A flag changes the default searching behaviour of a regular expression. It makes a regex search in a different way. A flag is denoted using a single lowercase alphabetic character.

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