Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(location.*?:)

locationthe literal text location (case sensitive)

.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

Group 2([a-zA-Z ,;\.]*)

Character Class[a-zA-Z ,;\.]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

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

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

;the literal ; (59₁₀ / 73₈ / 3B₁₆)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

Group 3([\.;])

Character Class[\.;]

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

;the literal ; (59₁₀ / 73₈ / 3B₁₆)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

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Regular Expression

(location.*?:)([a-zA-Z ,;\.]*)([\.;])

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