Regular Expressions 101

(?m)applies the following effective flags to the remainder of the pattern: gm

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

^start of line

Positive Lookahead(?=(?:.*type:([^/\s]+))?)

Non-Capturing Group(?:.*type:([^/\s]+))?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

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

type:the literal text type: (case sensitive)

Group 1([^/\s]+)

Negated Character Class[^/\s]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\sa Unicode whitespace character

Positive Lookahead(?=(?:.*sort:([^/\s]+))?)

Non-Capturing Group(?:.*sort:([^/\s]+))?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

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

sort:the literal text sort: (case sensitive)

Group 2([^/\s]+)

Negated Character Class[^/\s]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\sa Unicode whitespace character

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

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

(?m)^(?=(?:.*type:([^/\s]+))?)(?=(?:.*sort:([^/\s]+))?).*

Test String
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xbox/type:article/sort:date-desc
nintendo/type:media/sort:comments-asc
nintendo/type:1987/sort:14
pc/sort:views-desc
playstation/type:opinion/
playstation/sort:views-asc
xbox/sort:views-asc/type:article
playstation/type:media/sort:views-asc
xbox

02:52:00 P1D
y1987 m8 d13 02:52:00 P1D

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