Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

Group 1(.*?)

.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Negated Character Class[^\S\n]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\Sany non-whitespace character

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

Group 2([^\s*]*)

Negated Character Class[^\s*]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\sany whitespace character

*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

\*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\S\n]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\Sany non-whitespace character

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

Group 3(.*)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

$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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26 tokens

Regular Expression

^(.*?)[^\S\n]*([^\s*]*)\*[^\S\n]*(.*)$

New

This is ju* an example
This is * an example
T* is just an example
* is just an example
This is just an ex*
This is just an *

This is ju* an example
This is * an example
T* is just an example
* is just an example
This is just an ex*
This is just an *