Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

Group 1(\h*\S.*)

\h*any horizontal whitespace character, repeated any number of times

\Sany non-whitespace character

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

\Ra newline sequence

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

^start of line

Group 2(\h*\S.*)

\h*any horizontal whitespace character, repeated any number of times

\Sany non-whitespace character

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

\Ra newline sequence

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

^start of line

Positive Lookahead(?=/{24})

/{24}the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆) , repeated exactly 24 times

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

^(\h*\S.*)\R\s*^(\h*\S.*)\R\s*^(?=/{24})

1.58%
0009
1991
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Phil
ttr0018

1991

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$1 $2\n