regex101: IPTV Playlist

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1st Alternative(?!^\*)+?(?:^\W*\r*)(?<country>[\w]{0,1}[^\r\n])(?:[^\w*]+)(?<channel>[\w?,'\"\-_ ]*(?<![^\w?!])).*?(?<tag>\w*$)

Negative Lookahead(?!^\*)+?

+?repeats the group contents below at least once:

^start of line

\*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:^\W*\r*)

^start of line

\W*any non-word character, repeated any number of times

\r*a carriage return (ASCII 13), repeated any number of times

Group country(?<country>[\w]{0,1}[^\r\n])

Character Class[\w]{0,1}

{0,1}matches at most one character from the set below:

\wany word character

Negated Character Class[^\r\n]

\ra carriage return (ASCII 13)

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

Non-Capturing Group(?:[^\w*]+)

Negated Character Class[^\w*]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\wany word character

*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

Group channel(?<channel>[\w?,'\"\-_ ]*(?<![^\w?!]))

Character Class[\w?,'\"\-_ ]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

\wany word character

?the literal ? (63₁₀ / 77₈ / 3F₁₆)

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

\-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

_the literal _ (95₁₀ / 137₈ / 5F₁₆)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

Negative Lookbehind(?<![^\w?!])

Negated Character Class[^\w?!]

\wany word character

?the literal ? (63₁₀ / 77₈ / 3F₁₆)

!the literal ! (33₁₀ / 41₈ / 21₁₆)

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

Group tag(?<tag>\w*$)

\w*any word character, repeated any number of times

$end of line

2nd Alternative(?<channel2>^[\w?,'\"\-_]+(?<![^\w?!]))[^\w\r\n\*\t\f\v]*(?<tag2>\w+$)?

Group channel2(?<channel2>^[\w?,'\"\-_]+(?<![^\w?!]))

^start of line

Character Class[\w?,'\"\-_]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\wany word character

?the literal ? (63₁₀ / 77₈ / 3F₁₆)

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

\-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

_the literal _ (95₁₀ / 137₈ / 5F₁₆)

Negative Lookbehind(?<![^\w?!])

Negated Character Class[^\w?!]

\wany word character

?the literal ? (63₁₀ / 77₈ / 3F₁₆)

!the literal ! (33₁₀ / 41₈ / 21₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\w\r\n\*\t\f\v]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\wany word character

\ra carriage return (ASCII 13)

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

\*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

\ta tab character (ASCII 9)

\fa form-feed character (ASCII 12)

\vany vertical whitespace character

Group tag2(?<tag2>\w+$)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

$end of line

Global pattern flags

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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

25 tokens

Regular Expression

(?!^\*)+?(?:^\W*\r*)(?<country>[\w]{0,1}[^\r\n])(?:[^\w*]+)(?<channel>[\w?,'\"\-_ ]*(?<![^\w?!])).*?(?<tag>\w*$)|(?<channel2>^[\w?,'\"\-_]+(?<![^\w?!]))[^\w\r\n\*\t\f\v]*(?<tag2>\w+$)?

New

*** jeo ****
UK -+- "Channel Name' | HD
Channel | FHD
zeebo
BBC
US =  LONG chanell NaME | FHD
US - SkySports | HD
ES | Chan-nel Name  HD
IT| My long super channel Name | HD
ks  lets sae my channel | hd
JS: My channel Name | HD
JS: Sky Cinema Action
UK: Sky Cinema Gold | FHD
JA: Some other channel :HD
UK: this channel name ||jdh
AH: does it work for all?? |HD
UJ: Dont call me dave
****** My service Provider
DE: Doesn't handle weird _String | FHD
UK: so howcanedo | HD
KD: 5g0fff9 98hf9 ?|FHD
UR: this is okay mostly | FHD
EE) but does it always work? | vip
****** My service Provider ****vip
re: hahahaahahaahahaha 32 hd | hd
jg: will it work | dd
ur: rte1 | FHD
IR: M-Y CHAN-NEL NAME |VIP
IR: MY CHANNEL NAME | FHD
le let me get this channel" |FHD
UK MY CHANNNEL NAME | FHD
el haha get my name | jfh

Substitution

*** jeo ****
UK -+- "Channel Name' | HD
Channel | FHD
zeebo
BBC
US =  LONG chanell NaME | FHD
US - SkySports | HD
ES | Chan-nel Name  HD
IT| My long super channel Name | HD
ks  lets sae my channel | hd
JS: My channel Name | HD
JS: Sky Cinema Action
UK: Sky Cinema Gold | FHD
JA: Some other channel :HD
UK: this channel name ||jdh
AH: does it work for all?? |HD
UJ: Dont call me dave
****** My service Provider
DE: Doesn't handle weird _String | FHD
UK: so howcanedo | HD
KD: 5g0fff9 98hf9 ?|FHD
UR: this is okay mostly | FHD
EE) but does it always work? | vip
****** My service Provider ****vip
re: hahahaahahaahahaha 32 hd | hd
jg: will it work | dd
ur: rte1 | FHD
IR: M-Y CHAN-NEL NAME |VIP
IR: MY CHANNEL NAME | FHD
le let me get this channel" |FHD
UK MY CHANNNEL NAME | FHD
el haha get my name | jfh