Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

^start of line

\d{3}a Unicode decimal digit, repeated exactly 3 times

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

Character Class[a-z]

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

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

Group 1((?:\r?\n.*){0,5})

Non-Capturing Group(?:\r?\n.*){0,5}

{0,5}repeats the group contents below between 0 and 5 times:

\r?optionally matches a carriage return (ASCII 13)

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

.*any Unicode 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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25 tokens

^\d{3} [a-z].*((?:\r?\n.*){0,5})

New

200 sample text with many lines
 hell01 
 hell02 
 hell03 
 hell04 
 hell05
 hell06
 hell07 
 hell08

200 sample text with many lines
 hell01 
 hell02 
 hell03 
 hell04 
 hell05
 hell06
 hell07 
 hell08