Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Group 1((?:[^|]+\|){2})

Non-Capturing Group(?:[^|]+\|){2}

{2}repeats the group contents below exactly 2 times:

Negated Character Class[^|]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

\|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

Group 2([^|]+\|[^|]{,2}(?=\|))

Negated Character Class[^|]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

\|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^|]{,2}

{,2}matches between 0 and 2 characters outside the set below:

|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

Positive Lookahead(?=\|)

\|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

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

^((?:[^|]+\|){2})([^|]+\|[^|]{,2}(?=\|))

New

as234-H344423-dfX|dfer XXYUyu werg|1g|z4|sweDSgIKU|2017-SS0|123.45|YTf
as234-H3wer23-dZ|df3r Xa12yu wg|a1|2|sweDSgIKU|2017-SS0|123.45|YTf
as234-HJ123-HG|dfdf KHT werg|XXL|s45dtgIKU|2017-SS0|123.45|asUJY

Substitution

\1"\2"

as234-H344423-dfX|dfer XXYUyu werg|1g|z4|sweDSgIKU|2017-SS0|123.45|YTf
as234-H3wer23-dZ|df3r Xa12yu wg|a1|2|sweDSgIKU|2017-SS0|123.45|YTf
as234-HJ123-HG|dfdf KHT werg|XXL|s45dtgIKU|2017-SS0|123.45|asUJY