Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

FWD:the literal text FWD: (case sensitive)

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

Group pid(?<pid>[0-9]{4})

Character Class[0-9]{4}

{4}matches exactly 4 characters from the set below:

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

Group prog(?<prog>.+\.exe)

.+any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

exethe literal text exe (case sensitive)

: the literal text :

Group msg(?<msg>.*)

.*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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25 tokens

^FWD:\[(?<pid>[0-9]{4})\] (?<prog>.+\.exe): (?<msg>.*)$

New

FWD:[1234] something else.exe: a bunch of text