Regular Expressions 101

Pro

1st Alternative(?:[^\s()":]*:)?"[^"]+"

Non-Capturing Group(?:[^\s()":]*:)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

Negated Character Class[^\s()":]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\sany whitespace character

(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

2nd Alternative[^\s()]+

Negated Character Class[^\s()]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\sany whitespace character

(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

3rd Alternative[()]

Character Class[()]

(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

)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

(?:[^\s()":]*:)?"[^"]+"|[^\s()]+|[()]

New

+test +word any -sampe (+toto +titi "generic test") -column:"test this" (+data id:1234)

+test +word any -sampe (+toto +titi "generic test") -column:"test this" (+data id:1234)