Regular Expressions 101

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Non-Capturing Group(?:(HelloWorld:\w*)$.*?$)

Group 1(HelloWorld:\w*)

HelloWorld:the literal text HelloWorld: (case sensitive)

\w*any word character, repeated any number of times

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

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

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

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

(?:(HelloWorld:\w*)\(.*?\))

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M:HelloWorld:main(java.lang.String[]) (S)HelloWorld:foo()

M:HelloWorld:main(java.lang.String[]) (S)HelloWorld:foo()