regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Substitution Workspace

Pro

1st AlternativeDebug.*?endmsg

Debugthe literal text Debug (case sensitive)

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

endmsgthe literal text endmsg (case sensitive)

2nd Alternative(restart-required)

Group 1(restart-required)

restart-requiredthe literal text restart-required (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

25 tokens

Regular Expression

Debug.*?endmsg|(restart-required)

New

Debug: testing message with no restart-required.endmsg.Warn:garbagestuff.Debug: another message.endmsg.Warn:moregarbage.Debug: this testing message has restart-required.endmsg.Error:server 404 not found.Critical restart-required. Debug: blah blah restart-required.endmsg.

Extraction

Debug: testing message with no restart-required.endmsg.Warn:garbagestuff.Debug: another message.endmsg.Warn:moregarbage.Debug: this testing message has restart-required.endmsg.Error:server 404 not found.Critical restart-required. Debug: blah blah restart-required.endmsg.