Java regex match across words having apostrophe

Question

I have a sentence \"no it\'s all right lag\" where I am trying to detected a pattern \"no lag\". My regex is no + (\\\\s\\\\w*?\\\\s?){1,3} + lag. This fails. Howev

Answer 1

I think just no(.*)lag pattern will work. If I understood right.

Answer 2

You could create a new character class with the [] notation, instead of having \w you should use [\w'] making the entire regex "no(\s[\w']*?\s?){1,3}lag" as a Java String.

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