Regular Expressions 101

Non-Capturing Group(?:#capture)

#capturethe literal text #capture (case sensitive)

Group 1(\s*batman (\d+) batman\s*)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

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

batman the literal text batman (case sensitive)

Group 2(\d+)

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

batmanthe literal text batman (case sensitive)

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

Non-Capturing Group(?:#capture)

#capturethe literal text #capture (case sensitive)

Global pattern flags

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

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

Search reference

Regular Expression

(?:#capture)(\s*batman (\d+) batman\s*)*(?:#capture)

New

#capture
batman 12345 batman
batman 234 batman
batman 35655 batman
batman 1311 batman
#capture

#others
batman 12345 batman
batman 234 batman
batman 35655 batman
batman 1311 batman
#others

Regular Expression

Extraction