Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

Group 1([\s\S]*?\/)

Character Class[\s\S]*?

*?matches any number of characters from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Group 2(\w+\.c)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

cthe literal c (99₁₀ / 143₈ / 63₁₆) (case sensitive)

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

^([\s\S]*?\/)(\w+\.c)

New

a/b/c/d/file1.c  
a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/1/2/3/4/5/foo.c  
dir1/dir2/newlinedir  
/nextlinedir/bar.c

a/b/c/d/file1.c  
a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/1/2/3/4/5/foo.c  
dir1/dir2/newlinedir  
/nextlinedir/bar.c