Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Positive Lookbehind(?<=\/\/\s*COLORS)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

COLORSthe literal text COLORS (case sensitive)

Character Class[\r\n]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\ra carriage return (ASCII 13)

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

Group 1(.*)

.*any character, repeated any number of times

Positive Lookahead(?=\/\/\s*END\s*COLORS)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

ENDthe literal text END (case sensitive)

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

COLORSthe literal text COLORS (case sensitive)

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

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

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26 tokens

Regular Expression

(?<=\/\/\s*COLORS)[\r\n]+(.*)(?=\/\/\s*END\s*COLORS)

New

// COLORS
$nipiter-green     : #158C3F;
$green             : #048e3c;
$light-green       : #C4E2CF;
$nipiter-red       : #e11b1c;
$dark-red          : #a11b1b;
$black             : #000000;
$dark-gray         : #4c4c4c;
$gray              : #e4e4e4;
$white             : #ffffff;
$transparent-white : rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.59);
$feminist-purple   : #2a1736;

$yellow        : #ffff73;
$twitter-blue  : #5a8dbd;
$facebook-blue : #184f83;
// END COLORS