Regular Expressions 101

\*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

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

Group 1(([^\n]*(\n|$))*?)

Group 2([^\n]*(\n|$))*?

*?repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Negated Character Class[^\n]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

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

Group 3(\n|$)

1st Alternative\n

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

2nd Alternative$

$end of string

Positive Lookahead(?=\n|#|<[uo]l>|\*|$)

1st Alternative\n

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

2nd Alternative#

#the literal # (35₁₀ / 43₈ / 23₁₆)

3rd Alternative<[uo]l>

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Character Class[uo]

uthe literal u (117₁₀ / 165₈ / 75₁₆) (case sensitive)

othe literal o (111₁₀ / 157₈ / 6F₁₆) (case sensitive)

l>the literal text l> (case sensitive)

4th Alternative\*

\*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

5th Alternative$

$end of string

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

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26 tokens

Regular Expression

\*\s*(([^\n]*(\n|$))*?)(?=\n|#|<[uo]l>|\*|$)

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* bullet
text on new line
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this should be a separate block


* bullet
text on a new line
more text

this should be a separate block