Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Negative Lookbehind(?<!\d)

\da Unicode decimal digit

Negative Lookahead(?!2016(?!\d))

2016the literal text 2016

Negative Lookahead(?!\d)

\da Unicode decimal digit

\d{3,}a Unicode decimal digit, repeated at least 3 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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(?<!\d)(?!2016(?!\d))\d{3,}

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Employee ID DF856, Year 2016, Department Finance, Team 2, Location 112 20161 12016 120162