Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

Group 1(.\s?)

.any character (except for line terminators)

\s?optionally matches any whitespace character

Group 2(\d{2}\s?)

\d{2}a digit, repeated exactly 2 times

\s?optionally matches any whitespace character

Group 3(\d{1})

\d{1}a digit, repeated exactly 1 time

Group 4(.?\s)

.?optionally matches any character (except for line terminators)

\sany whitespace character

Group 5(\d{3}.?)

\d{3}a digit, repeated exactly 3 times

.?optionally matches any character (except for line terminators)

Group 6(\d{4})

\d{4}a digit, repeated exactly 4 times

$end of line

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

^(.\s?)(\d{2}\s?)(\d{1})(.?\s)(\d{3}.?)(\d{4})$

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