Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Non-Capturing Group(?:^ *uses\r?\n *|\G(?!^))

1st Alternative^ *uses\r?\n *

^start of line

*the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆) , repeated any number of times

usesthe literal text uses (case sensitive)

\r?optionally matches a carriage return (ASCII 13)

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

*the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆) , repeated any number of times

2nd Alternative\G(?!^)

\Gstart of current search

Negative Lookahead(?!^)

^start of line

Group 1(\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Non-Capturing Group(?:,\s*|;$)

1st Alternative,\s*

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

2nd Alternative;$

;the literal ; (59₁₀ / 73₈ / 3B₁₆)

$end of line

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

(?:^ *uses\r?\n *|\G(?!^))(\w+)(?:,\s*|;$)

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