Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

^start of line

Group 1(.*?)

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

Non-Capturing Group(?:\s+$.*$)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

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

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

$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

^(.*?)(?:\s+\(.*\))?$

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Yasmani Grandal (1B 1.84)
J.T. Realmuto
WillD. Smith(LAD)
Adley(round/1/2019) Rutschman

Yasmani Grandal (1B 1.84)
J.T. Realmuto
WillD. Smith(LAD)
Adley(round/1/2019) Rutschman