regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

Pro

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Group 1(Desktop|Downloads)

1st AlternativeDesktop

Desktopthe literal text Desktop (case sensitive)

2nd AlternativeDownloads

Downloadsthe literal text Downloads (case sensitive)

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

Group EXE_RAN(?<EXE_RAN>.*\.exe)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

exethe literal text exe (case sensitive)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

25 tokens

Regular Expression

.*(Desktop|Downloads)\\(?<EXE_RAN>.*\.exe)

New

C:\users\user1\Downloads\blah.exe
C:\Users\user234\Downloads\sqldeveloper-17.4.0.355.2349-x64\sqldeveloper\sqldeveloper\bin\sqldeveloper64W.exe
C:\Users\user9823\AppData\Local\iManage\Installer\Updates\iManage Work Desktop for Windows x86.exe
C:\Users\johnsmith\Desktop\dataloader-44.0.0.exe
C:\something\else\some.exe

Substitution

C:\users\user1\Downloads\blah.exe
C:\Users\user234\Downloads\sqldeveloper-17.4.0.355.2349-x64\sqldeveloper\sqldeveloper\bin\sqldeveloper64W.exe
C:\Users\user9823\AppData\Local\iManage\Installer\Updates\iManage Work Desktop for Windows x86.exe
C:\Users\johnsmith\Desktop\dataloader-44.0.0.exe
C:\something\else\some.exe