Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Group 1(-\s+)

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group 2(lat)

latthe literal text lat (case sensitive)

Group 3(.*)

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

Group 4(\n\s*)

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

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

Group 5(long)

longthe literal text long (case sensitive)

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

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

25 tokens

Regular Expression

^(-\s+)(lat)(.*)(\n\s*)(long)

New

- lat: "-82.645672"
  long: '44.941747'
  title: "Item 1"
- lat: "-82.645744"
  long: '44.940731'
  title: "Item 2"
- lat: "-82.645744"
  long: '44.940731'
  title: "Item 3"
- lat: "-82.646599"
  long: '44.941441'
  title: "Item 4"

Extraction

- lat: "-82.645672"
  long: '44.941747'
  title: "Item 1"
- lat: "-82.645744"
  long: '44.940731'
  title: "Item 2"
- lat: "-82.645744"
  long: '44.940731'
  title: "Item 3"
- lat: "-82.646599"
  long: '44.941441'
  title: "Item 4"