Regular Expressions 101

Pro

(?ms)applies the following effective flags to the remainder of the pattern: sm

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

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

\ba Unicode word boundary

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

\ba Unicode word boundary

Positive Lookahead(?=\-\>.*)

\-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

\>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

.*any Unicode character, repeated any number of times

Global pattern flags

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

(?ms)\b\w*\b(?=\-\>.*)

New

This is [INFO] 29 Jun- 2018 06:06:49,620 SYSLOG->|datetime:20180629060649618+0000|
 my first sentence SYSLOG- dds
 This is my [second] sentence.(?<=\[).*?(?=\].*)
(?ms)(?<=\s)\w*(?=\-\>.*)

Substitution

This is [INFO] 29 Jun- 2018 06:06:49,620 SYSLOG->|datetime:20180629060649618+0000|
 my first sentence SYSLOG- dds
 This is my [second] sentence.(?<=\[).*?(?=\].*)
(?ms)(?<=\s)\w*(?=\-\>.*)