Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

Group name(?<name>\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group uuid(?<uuid>[^ ]+)

Negated Character Class[^ ]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

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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Regular Expression

^(?<name>\w+)\s+(?<uuid>[^ ]+)

Test String
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mpatha 360002ac000000000000010e30001c751 dm-1 120G active 4 0 0 3PARdata VV 3315

mpathb 360002ac000000000000010fb0001c751 dm-0 240G active 4 0 0 3PARdata VV 3315

Regular Expression

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Test String
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