Regular Expressions 101

Non-Capturing Group(?:(("?)[a-zA-Z]+\2)\s)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

Group 1(("?)[a-zA-Z]+\2)

Group 2("?)

"?optionally matches the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Character Class[a-zA-Z]+

+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)

\2the text saved by group 2

\sa Unicode whitespace character

Group 3("[^"]+")

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

"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

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Search reference

Regular Expression

(?:(("?)[a-zA-Z]+\2)\s)?("[^"]+")

New

"Name" "Something to say !"
"Just a descriptive sentence"
name "Something to say !"
"Name" "Something to say !"