Quantifying with Style: Possessive Quantification 2/3

A Guide to Mastering the Art of Possessive Quantification

Welcome, fellow wizards, to this advanced pattern in our regex course! Today, we're venturing into the realm of possessive quantification. It's a mystical art that allows us to grasp the essence of quantities with precision.

Proceed to Example 3: Quantifying the Quantifiers, where we'll delve deeper into the world of possessive quantification.

Example 2: Possessive Quantification with Regular Expressions

In this example, we'll use regex to possessively quantify the following sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

      /(The )+(?:quick )+brown fox (jumps|leaps) (over the )+lazy (dog )+/g
    

This pattern uses the following groups:

• Group 1: (The )+
• Group 2: (?:quick )+
• Group 3: (jumps|leaps)
• Group 4: (over )+
• Group 5: (lazy )+
• Group 6: (dog )+