Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternative(\[[^\]]*(?:Advisor Count|Advising|count)[^\]]*\])

Group 1(\[[^\]]*(?:Advisor Count|Advising|count)[^\]]*\])

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\]]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:Advisor Count|Advising|count)

1st AlternativeAdvisor Count

Advisor Countthe literal text Advisor Count (case sensitive)

2nd AlternativeAdvising

Advisingthe literal text Advising (case sensitive)

3rd Alternativecount

countthe literal text count (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^\]]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

2nd Alternative(Advisor Count|Advising|count)

Group 2(Advisor Count|Advising|count)

1st AlternativeAdvisor Count

Advisor Countthe literal text Advisor Count (case sensitive)

2nd AlternativeAdvising

Advisingthe literal text Advising (case sensitive)

3rd Alternativecount

countthe literal text count (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

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Regular Expression

(\[[^\]]*(?:Advisor Count|Advising|count)[^\]]*\])|(Advisor Count|Advising|count)

[Avg Advisor Count by College numerator][Advising by college denominator] nominator count