regex101: JavaScript Match Workspace

Group 1(\bTODO|\!(?=\[[^\]]*\])|\[(?=[^\]]*\]))

1st Alternative\bTODO

\ban ASCII word boundary

TODOthe literal text TODO (case sensitive)

2nd Alternative\!(?=\[[^\]]*\])

\!the literal ! (33₁₀ / 41₈ / 21₁₆)

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

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\]]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

3rd Alternative\[(?=[^\]]*\])

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

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

Negated Character Class[^\]]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

Character Class[:;.,]?

?matches at most one character from the set below:

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

;the literal ; (59₁₀ / 73₈ / 3B₁₆)

.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

\d*a digit, repeated any number of times

Group 2($|\[[^\]]*\]|.*?(?=\])|\s.*$|\(.*$)

1st Alternative$

$end of line

2nd Alternative\[[^\]]*\]

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\]]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

3rd Alternative.*?(?=\])

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

Positive Lookahead(?=\])

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

4th Alternative\s.*$

\sany whitespace character

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

$end of line

5th Alternative\(.*$

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

.*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

26 tokens

Regular Expression

(\bTODO|\!(?=\[[^\]]*\]\(\))|\[(?=[^\]]*\]\(\)))[:;.,]?\d*($|\[[^\]]*\]|.*?(?=\]\(\))|\s.*$|\(.*$)

New

hello world

TODO yes please

TODO: hello wordl

!: hello world

TODO: ![image mix-up test]()


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![yes this is it]()

THis is [a link]() 

TODO: okay

Extraction

hello world

TODO yes please

TODO: hello wordl

!: hello world

TODO: ![image mix-up test]()


![]()

![yes this is it]()

THis is [a link]() 

TODO: okay