Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

Group Time(?P<Time>[^,]+)

Negated Character Class[^,]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:,\s*(?P<Station>.+))?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

\s*a Unicode whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Group Station(?P<Station>.+)

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

$end of line

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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25 tokens

Regular Expression

^(?P<Time>[^,]+)(?:,\s*(?P<Station>.+))?$

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