Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Non-Capturing Group(?:,\s+)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

\s+a Unicode whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group 1(\S.*?$ID:\d{5}$)

\Sany character that is not Unicode whitespace

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

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

ID:the literal text ID: (case sensitive)

\d{5}a Unicode decimal digit, repeated exactly 5 times

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

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

(?:,\s+)?(\S.*?\(ID:\d{5}\))

New

Company A, Inc(ID:12345), some-company, X (ID:12324), Some Special Company Z (ID:34324)

Company A, Inc(ID:12345), some-company, X (ID:12324), Some Special Company Z (ID:34324)