Novice regular expression question

I was wonderi开发者_如何学JAVAng, how do I create create a regular expression that allows me to use something akin an "or" statement. For example,

^\w+? [\s?] OR [\\w\\W]*?]$

where the brackets represent the condition.

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Like this:

(thing1|thing2)

This will match either "thing1" or "thing2" - see here for more info.

In your example it would be:

^(\w+? [\s?]|[\w\W]*?])$

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Use a | between your groups.