Regular Expressions 101

\ban ASCII word boundary

structurethe literal text structure (case sensitive)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group 1([\w.-]+)

Character Class[\w.-]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\wany word character

.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

Group 2((?:\n.*)+)

Non-Capturing Group(?:\n.*)+

+repeats the group contents below at least once:

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

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

\ban ASCII word boundary

endthe literal text end (case sensitive)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

\1the text saved by group 1

\ban ASCII word boundary

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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Search reference

Regular Expression

\bstructure\s+([\w.-]+)((?:\n.*)+)\bend\s+\1\b

New

structure NAME_PART_1
    Some content

    block NAME_PART_2
        Some other content
    end NAME_PART_2

    block NAME_PART_3
        subblock NAME_PART_4
            Some content++
        end NAME_PART_4
    end NAME_PART_3

end NAME_PART_1

structure           
    NAME_PART_5

end        NAME_PART_5

Regular Expression

Substitution