Regular Expressions 101

Group verse(?<verse>(?<block>^(?<num>\d+):\d+\s(?<txt>(?s).*?)(?<end>\n{2})(?!(?P=num)))+?)

Group block(?<block>^(?<num>\d+):\d+\s(?<txt>(?s).*?)(?<end>\n{2})(?!(?P=num)))+?

+?repeats the group contents below at least once:

^start of line

Group num(?<num>\d+)

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

\sany whitespace character

Group txt(?<txt>(?s).*?)

(?s)applies the following effective flags to the remainder of the pattern: gms

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

Group end(?<end>\n{2})

\n{2}a line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10), repeated exactly 2 times

Negative Lookahead(?!(?P=num))

(?P=num)the text saved by group num

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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Search reference

Regular Expression

(?<verse>(?<block>^(?<num>\d+):\d+\s(?<txt>(?s).*?)(?<end>\n{2})(?!(?P=num)))+?)

New

1:10 foo bar
baz

1:11 foo bar
baz

2:20 foo bar
baz

2:21 foo bar
baz

2:22 foo bar
baz

3:30 foo bar
baz

3:21 foo bar
baz

\n${verse}<br>\n\n