Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Negative Lookahead(?!\B"[^"]*)

\Bnot an ASCII word boundary

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

Negative Lookahead(?![^"]*"\B)

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

\Bnot an ASCII word boundary

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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26 tokens

(?!\B"[^"]*),(?![^"]*"\B)

New

aaa,bbb,ccc,"ddd,eee","fff,ggg"
"aaa,bbb",ccc,ddd,"eee,fff"
"aaa,bbb","ccc,ddd","eee,fff",ggg

\|

aaa,bbb,ccc,"ddd,eee","fff,ggg"
"aaa,bbb",ccc,ddd,"eee,fff"
"aaa,bbb","ccc,ddd","eee,fff",ggg