Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternative^[^,]+(*SKIP)(*F)

^start of line

Negated Character Class[^,]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

(*SKIP)acts like (*PRUNE), but the next unanchored match attempt starts where (*SKIP) was reached instead of at the next subject character

(*F)forces the current match attempt to fail at this position

2nd Alternative\b(\p{L})\p{L}*

\ban ASCII word boundary

Group 1(\p{L})

\p{L}any Unicode letter

\p{L}*any Unicode letter, 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

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Regular Expression

^[^,]+(*SKIP)(*F)|\b(\p{L})\p{L}*

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Sacher, Franz Xaver
Nishikawa, Kiyoko
Al-Assam, Muhammad

Sacher, Franz Xaver
Nishikawa, Kiyoko
Al-Assam, Muhammad