Regular Expressions 101

Positive Lookbehind(?<=\bserver=.+?\\)

\ban ASCII word boundary

server=the literal text server= (case sensitive)

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

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

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

Positive Lookahead(?=;)

;the literal ; (59₁₀ / 73₈ / 3B₁₆)

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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26 tokens

Regular Expression

(?<=\bserver=.+?\\).+?(?=;)

New

server=testDB01\sql14;uid=abc;pwd=def;database=ghi;language=english

server=testDB01\sql14;uid=abc;pwd=def;database=ghi;language=english