Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Group 1(\S[\s\S]*?)

\Sany character that is not Unicode whitespace

Character Class[\s\S]*?

*?matches any number of characters from the set below:

\sa Unicode whitespace character

\Sany character that is not Unicode whitespace

Non-Capturing Group(?:\n\n|$)

1st Alternative\n\n

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

2nd Alternative$

$end of string, or before its final line terminator

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

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25 tokens

(\S[\s\S]*?)(?:\n\n|$)

New

A quick brown
fox jumps over
the lazy dog;
1234;

Here is
the second paragraph
123141



And another.

A quick brown
fox jumps over
the lazy dog;
1234;

Here is
the second paragraph
123141



And another.