Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Positive Lookbehind(?<=\]: )

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

: the literal text :

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

Positive Lookahead(?=\[[^[\]]*:[^[\]]*\])

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^[\]]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^[\]]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

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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25 tokens

(?<=\]: ).*(?=\[[^[\]]*:[^[\]]*\])

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00:0qwe8.0 donald controller duck [02009&123@##]: Some more sring here Model number 420 Family [Super-cool] [15b31013^^@#][15b:31013][test]