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Regular Expression
Created·2015-03-03 14:36
Flavor·PCRE (Legacy)

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((?# Capturing group for the type name) \/+(?# Start with / or // ) [^\/\[\]]+(?# Type name exclusing start of attribute and next type) (?:(?# Non-capturing group for the attribute) \[(?# Start of an attribute) [^\]']*(?# Anything but end of attribute or start of string) (?:(?# non-capturing group for string) '(?# string start) [^']*(?# anything inside the string, except end of string) '(?# string end) )(?# end of string group) \](?# end of attribute) )?(?# Attribute can occur 0 or one time) )+(?# Type can occur once or many times)
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Description

How to document a Regex? Example 2: added documentation using (?#)

Submitted by Thomas