Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?<name>\w+)\s+{|(?!^)\G)

1st Alternative(?<name>\w+)\s+{

Group name(?<name>\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

{the literal { (123₁₀ / 173₈ / 7B₁₆)

2nd Alternative(?!^)\G

Negative Lookahead(?!^)

^start of line

\Gstart of current search

\W*any non-word character, repeated any number of times

Group point(?<point>\d+)

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group content(?<content>.+?(?=,\s+\d+:|\s*}))

.+?any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

Positive Lookahead(?=,\s+\d+:|\s*})

1st Alternative,\s+\d+:

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

2nd Alternative\s*}

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

}the literal } (125₁₀ / 175₈ / 7D₁₆)

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

Regular Expression

(?:(?<name>\w+)\s+{|(?!^)\G)\W*(?<point>\d+):\s+(?<content>.+?(?=,\s+\d+:|\s*}))

New

| Elencia   { 1: Simple one, 0: A longer sentence, or maybe not, 2: Another sentence }
| Elencia   { 10:    Sentence with spaces on left,     0: Same but with some spaces on right      }

Extraction

| Elencia   { 1: Simple one, 0: A longer sentence, or maybe not, 2: Another sentence }
| Elencia   { 10:    Sentence with spaces on left,     0: Same but with some spaces on right      }