Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Group 1(.+)

.+any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

Group 2(\n.+\n.+)

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

.+any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

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

.+any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

Group 3([\s\S]*?)

Character Class[\s\S]*?

*?matches any number of characters from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

Group 4(.+)

.+any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

\2the text saved by group 2

$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

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

26 tokens

Regular Expression

^(.+)(\n.+\n.+)([\s\S]*?)(.+)\2$

New

Cucumber Overwatch
Facebook Inc
New York, Ny.

John Stave
Amazon Inc
Michigan, Mi.

EAAlon MasBBk
Facebook Inc
New York, Ny.

Elon Mask
Amazon Inc
Michigan, Mi.

Extraction

Cucumber Overwatch
Facebook Inc
New York, Ny.

John Stave
Amazon Inc
Michigan, Mi.

EAAlon MasBBk
Facebook Inc
New York, Ny.

Elon Mask
Amazon Inc
Michigan, Mi.