Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

GROUP2the literal text GROUP2 (case sensitive)

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

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

Non-Capturing Group(?:\r?\n\s*[^\]\[\s].*)+

+repeats the group contents below at least once:

\r?optionally matches a carriage return (ASCII 13)

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Negated Character Class[^\]\[\s]

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

\sany whitespace character

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

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

^\[GROUP2\].*(?:\r?\n\s*[^\]\[\s].*)+

New

[GROUP1]
;This is something I don't want
COMMAND(value:test)
COMMAND(value:[type="submit"])
COMMAND(value:test)
COMMAND(value:test)

[GROUP2]
;This is something I don't want
COMMAND(value:test)
COMMAND(value:[type="submit"])
COMMAND(value:test)
COMMAND(value:test)