Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Negated Character Class[^\n\r\t:]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

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

\ra carriage return (ASCII 13)

\ta tab character (ASCII 9)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

Positive Lookahead(?=:(?:.*\R\t)*status:\h+active)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:.*\R\t)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

\Ra newline sequence

\ta tab character (ASCII 9)

status:the literal text status: (case sensitive)

\h+any horizontal whitespace character, repeated at least once

activethe literal text active (case sensitive)

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

^[^\n\r\t:]+(?=:(?:.*\R\t)*status:\h+active)

New

ABC 12:
	text....
	text.......
	status: active
XYZ 34:
	word word word
	status: active

ABC 12:
	text....
	text.......
	status: active
XYZ 34:
	word word word
	status: active