Regular Expressions 101

Pro

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 1(test)

testthe literal text test (case sensitive)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

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

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

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

Branch Reset Group(?|"([^"]*)"|\[([^]]*)])

1st Alternative"([^"]*)"

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 2([^"]*)

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

2nd Alternative\[([^]]*)]

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

Group 2([^]]*)

Negated Character Class[^]]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

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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25 tokens

"(test)"\h*:\h*(?|"([^"]*)"|\[([^]]*)])

New

"test":"value0"
"test":["value1", "value2"]