Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Non-Capturing Group(?:\G(?!\A)|My\s+nieces\s+are)

1st Alternative\G(?!\A)

\Gstart of current search

Negative Lookahead(?!\A)

\Astart of string

2nd AlternativeMy\s+nieces\s+are

Mythe literal text My (case sensitive)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

niecesthe literal text nieces (case sensitive)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

arethe literal text are (case sensitive)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group 1(\S+)

\S+any non-whitespace character, repeated at least once

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

Group 2(\d+)

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

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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27 tokens

(?:\G(?!\A)|My\s+nieces\s+are)\s+(\S+):(\d+)

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My nieces are Cara:8 Sarah:9 Tara:10