Regular Expressions 101

Positive Lookbehind(?<=\s|^)

1st Alternative\s

\sany whitespace character

2nd Alternative^

^start of string

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

\s?optionally matches any whitespace character

-?optionally matches the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

\s?optionally matches any whitespace character

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

Positive Lookahead(?=\s|$)

1st Alternative\s

\sany whitespace character

2nd Alternative$

$end of string, or before its final line terminator

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

(?<=\s|^):\s?-?\s?\)(?=\s|$)

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