Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(vif\W+)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

vifthe literal text vif (case sensitive)

\W+any non-word character, repeated at least once

Group 2((?:, )?'mac=00:21:f6:)

Non-Capturing Group(?:, )?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

, the literal text ,

'mac=00:21:f6:the literal text 'mac=00:21:f6: (case sensitive)

Group 3((\w{2}:?){3})

Group 4(\w{2}:?){3}

{3}repeats the group contents below exactly 3 times:

\w{2}any word character, repeated exactly 2 times

:?optionally matches the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

Group 5(,bridge=\w+')

,bridge=the literal text ,bridge= (case sensitive)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:])?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

]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

Regular Expression

(vif\W+)?((?:, )?'mac=00:21:f6:)((\w{2}:?){3})(,bridge=\w+')(?:])?

New

vif = ['mac=00:21:f6:04:16:f3,bridge=101498d8ff', 'mac=00:21:f6:80:0b:d9,bridge=1017dc5841']