Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Non-Capturing Group(?:[^:]*:){3}

{3}repeats the group contents below exactly 3 times:

Negated Character Class[^:]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Group 1(\S.*)

\Sany non-whitespace character

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

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

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26 tokens

^(?:[^:]*:){3}\s*(\S.*)

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user_name_1, 10:46:36 activity_name_1 : the text to be returned

user_name_1, 10:46:36 activity_name_1 : the text to be returned