Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

func the literal text func (case sensitive)

Group 1($.*$ )?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

Character Class[a-zA-Z0-9]+?

+?matches at least one character from the set below:

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

Group 2(.*?)

.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

Character Class[a-zA-Z0-9 ]*?

*?matches any number of characters from the set below:

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\{the literal { (123₁₀ / 173₈ / 7B₁₆)

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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^func (\(.*\) )?[a-zA-Z0-9]+?\((.*?)\) [a-zA-Z0-9 ]*?\{