Regular Expressions 101

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^start of line

\|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group 1([^\n|]+)

Negated Character Class[^\n|]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

\|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

Group 2((?:(?!^\|\|).)+)

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?!^\|\|).)+

+repeats the group contents below at least once:

Negative Lookahead(?!^\|\|)

^start of line

\|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

.any character

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

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

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26 tokens

^\|\|\s+([^\n|]+)\s+\|\|((?:(?!^\|\|).)+)

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