Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Positive Lookbehind(?<=##)

##the literal text ##

Group 1((?!##).)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Negative Lookahead(?!##)

##the literal text ##

.any character (except for line terminators)

Positive Lookahead(?=##)

##the literal text ##

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

(?<=##)((?!##).)*(?=##)

New

class: ##TOPIC##-area
  name: myClass
type: Class
secretKey: private-##SECRET_KEY##-encoded-##SUFFIX_CODE##

class: ##TOPIC##-area
  name: myClass
type: Class
secretKey: private-##SECRET_KEY##-encoded-##SUFFIX_CODE##