regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

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Non-Capturing Group(?:\boptions{|\G(?!^))

1st Alternative\boptions{

\ban ASCII word boundary

options{the literal text options{ (case sensitive)

2nd Alternative\G(?!^)

\Gstart of current search

Negative Lookahead(?!^)

^start of line

Non-Capturing Group(?:[ |]+)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

Character Class[ |]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

\Kresets the starting point of the reported match. Any previously consumed characters are no longer included in the final match

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

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

25 tokens

Regular Expression

(?:\boptions{|\G(?!^))(?:[ |]+)?\K\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}

Substitution

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}