regex101: Python Substitution Workspace

Group 1(^disk\W+\[)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

^start of line

diskthe literal text disk (case sensitive)

\W+any character that is not a Unicode word character, repeated at least once

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

Group 2('file:[^']+'(,)?)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

'file:the literal text 'file: (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^']+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Group 3(,)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

Group 4('phy:[^']+'(,)?)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

'phy:the literal text 'phy: (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^']+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Group 5(,)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

Group 6(])?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

Global pattern flags

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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

Search reference

Regular Expression

(^disk\W+\[)?('file:[^']+'(,)?)?('phy:[^']+'(,)?)?(])?

New

disk = ['file:/OVS/Repositories/0004fb0000030000c83b5c9f7ae78c70/VirtualDisks/0004fb00001200009ddb6b8cbb9a3ad2.img,xvda,w', 'phy:/dev/mapper/3624a9370ab906bd01c3f4e00000112a2,xvdb,w', 'phy:/dev/mapper/3624a9370ab906bd01c3f4e0000011061,xvdc,w', 'phy:/dev/mapper/3624a9370ab906bd01c3f4e00000110a0,xvdd,w', 'file:/dev/mapper/3624a9370ab906bd01c3f4e000001129a,xvde,w', 'phy:/dev/mapper/3624a9370ab906bd01c3f4e000001132c,xvdf,w']

Regular Expressions 101

Regular Expression

Extraction