Regular Expressions 101

\ban ASCII word boundary

Group 1(Movie)

Moviethe literal text Movie (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

\h+any horizontal whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group 2((?:(?!\h+[SE]\d+\b).)*)

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?!\h+[SE]\d+\b).)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Negative Lookahead(?!\h+[SE]\d+\b)

\h+any horizontal whitespace character, repeated at least once

Character Class[SE]

Sthe literal S (83₁₀ / 123₈ / 53₁₆) (case sensitive)

Ethe literal E (69₁₀ / 105₈ / 45₁₆) (case sensitive)

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

\ban ASCII word boundary

.any character (except for line terminators)

Non-Capturing Group(?:\h(S\d+\h+E\d+))?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

\hany horizontal whitespace character

Group 3(S\d+\h+E\d+)

Sthe literal S (83₁₀ / 123₈ / 53₁₆) (case sensitive)

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

\h+any horizontal whitespace character, repeated at least once

Ethe literal E (69₁₀ / 105₈ / 45₁₆) (case sensitive)

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

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

\b(Movie)\b\h+((?:(?!\h+[SE]\d+\b).)*)(?:\h(S\d+\h+E\d+))?

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Movie TOTO S09 E22 2022 Copyright
Movie TOTO S09 2022 Copyright
Movie TOTO 2022
Movie TOTO E22 2022
Movie a test movie