Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

\/{3}the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆) , repeated exactly 3 times

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

Non-Capturing Group(?:\r?\n\/{3}.*)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

\r?optionally matches a carriage return (ASCII 13)

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

\/{3}the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆) , repeated exactly 3 times

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

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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26 tokens

Regular Expression

^\/{3}.*(?:\r?\n\/{3}.*)*

New

# this is block1
/// text
/// text
/// text
/// text

# this is block2
/// text
/// text
/// text
/// text

# this is block1
/// text
/// text
/// text
/// text

# this is block2
/// text
/// text
/// text
/// text