Regular Expressions 101

Pro

1st Alternative(?<!\boptions){.*?}(*SKIP)(*F)

Negative Lookbehind(?<!\boptions)

\ban ASCII word boundary

optionsthe literal text options (case sensitive)

{the literal { (123₁₀ / 173₈ / 7B₁₆)

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

}the literal } (125₁₀ / 175₈ / 7D₁₆)

(*SKIP)acts like (*PRUNE), but the next unanchored match attempt starts where (*SKIP) was reached instead of at the next subject character

(*F)forces the current match attempt to fail at this position

2nd Alternative\w+(?=[^{]*?})

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Positive Lookahead(?=[^{]*?})

Negated Character Class[^{]*?

*?matches any number of characters outside the set below:

{the literal { (123₁₀ / 173₈ / 7B₁₆)

}the literal } (125₁₀ / 175₈ / 7D₁₆)

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

Regular Expression

(?<!\boptions){.*?}(*SKIP)(*F)|\w+(?=[^{]*?})

New

options{Red | Blue | Green}
options{Red | Blue | green },users={Paul | Ringo | John | George}, options{Yellow | Purple}
options{Red | Blue | green },users{Paul | Ringo | John | George}, options{Yellow | Purple}, more{Black | White}