Regular Expressions 101

Pro

1st Alternative^(?!.*")(.*)$

^start of line

Negative Lookahead(?!.*")

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

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 1(.*)

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

$end of line

2nd Alternative^[^"]*"(.*?)".*$

^start of line

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 2(.*?)

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

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

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

$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

^(?!.*")(.*)$|^[^"]*"(.*?)".*$

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fsdsdf "This one" fdsfsd ghjhgj "sfdsf"
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