Regular Expressions 101

Non-Capturing Group(?:\[Animations?\]|(?<=\]))

1st Alternative\[Animations?\]

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

Animationthe literal text Animation (case sensitive)

s?optionally matches the literal s (115₁₀ / 163₈ / 73₁₆) (case sensitive)

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

2nd Alternative(?<=\])

Positive Lookbehind(?<=\])

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\[\r\n]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

\ra carriage return (ASCII 13)

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

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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Search reference

Regular Expression

(?:\[Animations?\]|(?<=\]))[^\[\r\n]+

New

[tag1][tag4] Desired string - with optional dash [tag10]
[tag1][tag2][tag3] Desired string [tag10]
[tag3][tag1][tag2][tag5] Desired - string (with suffix)
[tag2][tag5][tag4] [Animation] Target string [tag10]
[tag3][tag1][tag5][tag10][Animations](prefix)Desired - string (and suffix)

Regular Expression

Substitution