Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternative\.zip\b[^,]*(*SKIP)(*F)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

zipthe literal text zip (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

Negated Character Class[^,]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

(*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\s

\sany whitespace character

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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Search reference

Regular Expression

\.zip\b[^,]*(*SKIP)(*F)|\s

Test String
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http://abcd.com/old file/anotherfile.zip/some contents/sample.txt,http://abcd.com/new file/anotherfile.zip/some more contents/new sample.txt,http://abcd.com/newer file/another file.zip/some more contents/old sample.txt,http://abcd.com/newer file/another file.txt

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%20

Regular Expression

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