Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(\w+?)

\w+?any word character, repeated at least once

=the literal = (61₁₀ / 75₈ / 3D₁₆)

Group 2(.+?)

.+?any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

Positive Lookahead(?=\s\w+=|$)

1st Alternative\s\w+=

\sany whitespace character

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

=the literal = (61₁₀ / 75₈ / 3D₁₆)

2nd Alternative$

$end of string, or before its final line terminator

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

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Search reference

Regular Expression

(\w+?)=(.+?)(?=\s\w+=|$)

metadata=1   .2 name=sto\\=  ne: s   up ers  hare UUID=eff4e7b   c:47aea    5cf:0f0560f  0:2de3  8475