regex101: PCRE2 (PHP) Match Workspace

^start of line

Group Vmid(?'Vmid'\d+)

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

Group 2(\s+)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group 3((?'Name'\S.+\S)?)

Group Name(?'Name'\S.+\S)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

\Sany non-whitespace character

.+any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

\Sany non-whitespace character

Group 5(\s+)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group Datastore(?'Datastore'\[\S+\])

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

\S+any non-whitespace character, repeated at least once

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

Group 7(\s+)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group File(?'File'.+\.vmx)

.+any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

vmxthe literal text vmx (case sensitive)

Group 9(\s+)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group GuestOS(?'GuestOS'\S+)

\S+any non-whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group 11(\s+)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group Version(?'Version'vmx-\d+)

vmx-the literal text vmx- (case sensitive)

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

Group 13(\s*?)

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

Group 14((?'Annotation'\S.+)?)

Group Annotation(?'Annotation'\S.+)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

\Sany non-whitespace character

.+any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

$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

Search reference

Regular Expression

^(?'Vmid'\d+)(\s+)((?'Name'\S.+\S)?)(\s+)(?'Datastore'\[\S+\])(\s+)(?'File'.+\.vmx)(\s+)(?'GuestOS'\S+)(\s+)(?'Version'vmx-\d+)(\s*?)((?'Annotation'\S.+)?)$

New

Vmid                Name                                                       File                                               Guest OS       Version                                                                                                                                                                                              Annotation                                                                                                                                                                                           
10     X9SRI-3F-W10P-EN-MEDIA           [EVO860_500GB] VM/X9SRI-3F-W10P-EN-MEDIA/X9SRI-3F-W10P-EN-MEDIA.vmx                   windows9_64Guest   vmx-14                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
5      PPB Local_Virtual Machine_v4.0   [EVO860_500GB] VM/PPB-Local_Virtual-Machine_v4.0/PPB Local_Virtual Machine_v4.0.vmx   centos64Guest      vmx-11    PowerPanel Business software(Local) provides the service which communicates
with the UPS through USB or Serial cable and relays the UPS state to each Remote on other computers
via a network.
It also monitors and logs the UPS status. The computer which has been installed the Local provides
graceful,
unattended shutdown in the event of the power outage to protect the hosted computer.
15     X9SRI [-] 3F-W10P-EN-MEDIA           [EVO860_500GB] VM/X9SRI-3F-W10P-EN-MEDIA/X9SRI-3F-W10P-EN-MEDIA.vmx                   windows9_64Guest   vmx-14