Regular Expressions 101

Pro

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

Character Class[\w.]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\wa Unicode word character

.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:\\[\w.-]+)+

+repeats the group contents below at least once:

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

Character Class[\w.-]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\wa Unicode word character

.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

Character Class[\w-]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\wa Unicode word character

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:\.[\w+-]+)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

Character Class[\w+-]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\wa Unicode word character

+the literal + (43₁₀ / 53₈ / 2B₁₆)

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

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

Regular Expression

\\\\[\w.]+(?:\\[\w.-]+)+\\[\w-]+(?:\.[\w+-]+)*

New

Here is an example text and we want to use regex to extract the links. The links we are interested in are \\1.123.42.5\foo\bar\file_name and \\remote_node\shared_path\520.38-nonprod\util\file_name. This text can be continued with even more sentences ...
\\1.123.42.5\foo\bar\file_name.png