Regular Expressions 101

Pro

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

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

Negative Lookahead(?!\-)

\-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

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

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

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

the literal ↵ (10₁₀ / 12₈ / A₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

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25 tokens

.*\((?!\-).+\).*

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