Regular Expressions 101

Pro

\ba Unicode word boundary

PID:the literal text PID: (case sensitive)

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

Group 1([^\s,]+)

Negated Character Class[^\s,]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\sa Unicode whitespace character

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

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

\bPID:\s*([^\s,]+)

PID:                       ,  VID:    unimportant string   ,  SN: 1

PID: ABC2-123CE-D3T        ,  VID:    unimportant string   ,  SN: 1

PID:                       ,  VID:    unimportant string   ,  SN: 1

PID: ABC2-123CE-D3T        ,  VID:    unimportant string   ,  SN: 1