Regex Tester & Explainer

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Regular expression

//g

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What this pattern means

\b a word boundary
\w+ a word character (letter, digit or _), one or more times
@ the text “@”
\w+ a word character (letter, digit or _), one or more times
. the text “.”
\w+ a word character (letter, digit or _), one or more times
\b a word boundary

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