Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

Group 1(\w.*)

\wany word character

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

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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Regular Expression

^\w+:(\w.*)

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this string should not match

bob_1:Hi. I'm Bob. I speak русский and this string should match  

alice:Hi Bob. I speak 한국어 and this string should also match

http://example.com - would prefer to not match URLs

This string:should not match because no spaces or capital letters are allowed left of the colon

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