regex101: Golang Match Workspace

Pro

\ban ASCII word boundary

key="the literal text key=" (case sensitive)

Group 1(abcd(?:-e|-(?:[^e\W]|e[^d\W])\w*)*)

abcdthe literal text abcd (case sensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?:-e|-(?:[^e\W]|e[^d\W])\w*)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

1st Alternative-e

-ethe literal text -e (case sensitive)

2nd Alternative-(?:[^e\W]|e[^d\W])\w*

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:[^e\W]|e[^d\W])

1st Alternative[^e\W]

Negated Character Class[^e\W]

ethe literal e (101₁₀ / 145₈ / 65₁₆) (case sensitive)

\Wany non-word character

2nd Alternativee[^d\W]

ethe literal e (101₁₀ / 145₈ / 65₁₆) (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^d\W]

dthe literal d (100₁₀ / 144₈ / 64₁₆) (case sensitive)

\Wany non-word character

\w*any word character, repeated any number of times

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

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

25 tokens

Regular Expression

\bkey="(abcd(?:-e|-(?:[^e\W]|e[^d\W])\w*)*)"

New

 1. object{one="ab-vwxc",two="value1",key="abcd-eest-ed-xyz-bnn",four="obsoleteValues"}
 2. object{one="ab-vwxc",two="value1",key="abcd-eest-xyz-bnn",four="obsoleteValues"}
 3. object{one="ab-vwxc",two="value1",key="abcd-eest-xyz-bnn-ed",four="obsoleteValues"}
 2. object{one="ab-vwxc",two="value1",key="abcd-e-xyz-bnn",four="obsoleteValues"}

Substitution

 1. object{one="ab-vwxc",two="value1",key="abcd-eest-ed-xyz-bnn",four="obsoleteValues"}
 2. object{one="ab-vwxc",two="value1",key="abcd-eest-xyz-bnn",four="obsoleteValues"}
 3. object{one="ab-vwxc",two="value1",key="abcd-eest-xyz-bnn-ed",four="obsoleteValues"}
 2. object{one="ab-vwxc",two="value1",key="abcd-e-xyz-bnn",four="obsoleteValues"}