Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

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

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

Group 1(\w+(?:\.\w+)*?)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Non-Capturing Group(?:\.\w+)*?

*?repeats the group contents below any number of times:

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

exethe literal text exe (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^\\\r\n]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

\ra carriage return (ASCII 13)

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

$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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Search reference

Regular Expression

^.*\\(\w+(?:\.\w+)*?)\.exe[^\\\r\n]*$

C:\Temp\Logs\MyMainApp.SubApp.App.exe.010519.201123.9320.log