Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

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

/testthe literal text /test (case sensitive)

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

$end of line

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

^\s*/test.*$

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