Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^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

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Regular Expression

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

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