Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Group 1($[^()]*$[[:blank:]][[:blank:]]*)

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^()]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

Character Class[[:blank:]]

[:blank:]a whitespace character, excluding line breaks [ \t]

Character Class[[:blank:]]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

[:blank:]a whitespace character, excluding line breaks [ \t]

Negated Character Class[^()]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^()]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

Group 2([^()]*)

Negated Character Class[^()]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

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

Regular Expression

(\([^()]*\)[[:blank:]][[:blank:]]*)[^()]*\([^()]*\.([^()]*)\)

New

TREE(abc/x73/APPLE)   DEST(MYFILE.FILE1A) 
TREE(abc/x74/APPLE)   DEST(MYFILE88.FILE1A) 
TREE(abc/x100/APPLE)  DEST(MYFILE100.FILE1B) 
TREE(abc/x61/APPLE)   DEST(MYFILE1000.FILE1A)

Extraction

TREE(abc/x73/APPLE)   DEST(MYFILE.FILE1A) 
TREE(abc/x74/APPLE)   DEST(MYFILE88.FILE1A) 
TREE(abc/x100/APPLE)  DEST(MYFILE100.FILE1B) 
TREE(abc/x61/APPLE)   DEST(MYFILE1000.FILE1A)