Regular Expressions 101

"username": "the literal text "username": " (case sensitive)

Negative Lookahead(?!Bot[12]")

Botthe literal text Bot (case sensitive)

Character Class[12]

1the literal 1 (49₁₀ / 61₈ / 31₁₆)

2the literal 2 (50₁₀ / 62₈ / 32₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 1([^"]+)

Negated Character Class[^"]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

",the literal text ",

Non-Capturing Group(?:\s*"[^"]+": (?:[^"]+|"[^"]*"),)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

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

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

": the literal text ":

Non-Capturing Group(?:[^"]+|"[^"]*")

1st Alternative[^"]+

Negated Character Class[^"]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

2nd Alternative"[^"]*"

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

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

"channel_id": "the literal text "channel_id": " (case sensitive)

Group 2(\d+)

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

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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Regular Expression

"username": "(?!Bot[12]")([^"]+)",(?:\s*"[^"]+": (?:[^"]+|"[^"]*"),)*\s*"channel_id": "(\d+)"

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