Regular Expressions 101

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Moviethe literal text Movie (case sensitive)

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Group 1(.*?)

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

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Group 2(S\d\d\s*E\d\d|$)

1st AlternativeS\d\d\s*E\d\d

Sthe literal S (83₁₀ / 123₈ / 53₁₆) (case sensitive)

\da digit

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Ethe literal E (69₁₀ / 105₈ / 45₁₆) (case sensitive)

\da digit

2nd Alternative$

$end of line

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

Movie\s*(.*?)\s*(S\d\d\s*E\d\d|$)

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Movie TOTO S09 E22 2022 Copyright
Movie TOTO TITI TATA S09 E22 2022 Copyright
Movie TOTO 2022 Copyright

Movie TOTO S09 E22 2022 Copyright
Movie TOTO TITI TATA S09 E22 2022 Copyright
Movie TOTO 2022 Copyright