Regular Expressions 101

Pro

1st Alternative(?<=[{| ])\w+(?=[}| ])

Positive Lookbehind(?<=[{| ])

Character Class[{| ]

{the literal { (123₁₀ / 173₈ / 7B₁₆)

|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\w+a Unicode word character, repeated at least once

Positive Lookahead(?=[}| ])

Character Class[}| ]

}the literal } (125₁₀ / 175₈ / 7D₁₆)

|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

2nd Alternative$[\w ]+$

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

Character Class[\w ]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\wa Unicode word character

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

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

(?<=[{| ])\w+(?=[}| ])|\([\w ]+\)

{{word1|word2|word3 (word4 word5)|word6}}
{{word1|word2|word3 (word4 word5) word6}}
{{word1}}

{{word1|word2|word3 (word4 word5)|word6}}
{{word1|word2|word3 (word4 word5) word6}}
{{word1}}