Regular Expressions 101

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^start of line

Non-Capturing Group(?:\|[^\S\n]*)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

\|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\S\n]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\Sany character that is not Unicode whitespace

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

Group 1(\S+)

\S+any character that is not Unicode whitespace, repeated at least once

Negated Character Class[^\S\n]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\Sany character that is not Unicode whitespace

\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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25 tokens

^(?:\|[^\S\n]*)*(\S+)[^\S\n]*$

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| John | Gilbert | alan
| Stephen | king | harris
| | Steve
| Barack | | Obama
|| Donald | | Trump 
| | Alan
| | Stewart

| John | Gilbert | alan
| Stephen | king | harris
| | Steve
| Barack | | Obama
|| Donald | | Trump 
| | Alan
| | Stewart