Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

SONGthe literal text SONG (case sensitive)

Character Class[\s\S]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

Positive Lookahead(?=^[A-Z][A-Z ]+$)

^start of line

Character Class[A-Z]

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

Character Class[A-Z ]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

$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

Match Information

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Quick Reference

25 tokens

Regular Expression

SONG[\s\S]*(?=^[A-Z][A-Z ]+$)

New

SONG

You are as gold

The half-opened flowers

For your face is as fair as rain,

Yet as rain that lies clear

Casts light for a shadow.

AT BAIA

I should have thought

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Extraction

SONG

You are as gold

The half-opened flowers

For your face is as fair as rain,

Yet as rain that lies clear

Casts light for a shadow.

AT BAIA

I should have thought

--End example--