Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Non-Capturing Group(?:^|\[)

1st Alternative^

^start of line

2nd Alternative\[

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

Group 1([^\][]*-v\d[^\][]*)

Negated Character Class[^\][]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

-vthe literal text -v (case sensitive)

\da digit

Negated Character Class[^\][]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

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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26 tokens

Regular Expression

(?:^|\[)([^\][]*-v\d[^\][]*)]

[appName1-v10.20.1](https://github.com/appName1/1111), [appName2-v20.15.10](https://github.com/appName2/aaa)]

[Package: appName1-v10.20.1](https://github.com/appName1/1111)

Extraction

[appName1-v10.20.1](https://github.com/appName1/1111), [appName2-v20.15.10](https://github.com/appName2/aaa)]

[Package: appName1-v10.20.1](https://github.com/appName1/1111)