Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

\S*any character that is not Unicode whitespace, repeated any number of times

Non-Capturing Group(?:\s(?!\()\S*)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

\sa Unicode whitespace character

Negative Lookahead(?!\()

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

\S*any character that is not Unicode whitespace, 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

^\S*(?:\s(?!\()\S*)*

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