Regular Expressions 101

Pro

1st Alternative(?<=Yay you made it, )\S+

Positive Lookbehind(?<=Yay you made it, )

Yay you made it, the literal text Yay you made it, (case sensitive)

\S+any character that is not Unicode whitespace, repeated at least once

2nd Alternative\S+(?= joined the party)

\S+any character that is not Unicode whitespace, repeated at least once

Positive Lookahead(?= joined the party)

joined the partythe literal text joined the party (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

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

25 tokens

Regular Expression

(?<=Yay you made it, )\S+|\S+(?= joined the party)

New

 Yay you made it, User1 ! — 25/03/2022 --------------- User2 joined the party. — 22/03/2022 --------------- Yay you made it, User3 ! — 29/03/2022 --------------- User4 joined the party. — 28/03/2022

Extraction

 Yay you made it, User1 ! — 25/03/2022 --------------- User2 joined the party. — 22/03/2022 --------------- Yay you made it, User3 ! — 29/03/2022 --------------- User4 joined the party. — 28/03/2022