Regular Expressions 101

Group bquote_all(?<bquote_all> ( ^[ \t]*>[ \t]? .+\n (?<bquote_other>.+\n)* \n* )+ )

Group 2( ^[ \t]*>[ \t]? .+\n (?<bquote_other>.+\n)* \n* )+

+repeats the group contents below at least once:

^start of line

Character Class[ \t]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\ta tab character (ASCII 9)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Character Class[ \t]?

?matches at most one character from the set below:

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\ta tab character (ASCII 9)

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

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

Group bquote_other(?<bquote_other>.+\n)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

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

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

\n*a line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10), repeated any number of times

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

x modifier: extended. Ignores unescaped whitespace and comments outside character classes

Ready to run

25 tokens

Regular Expression

(?<bquote_all>
    (
        ^[ \t]*>[ \t]?
        .+\n
        (?<bquote_other>.+\n)*
        \n*
    )+
)