Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(^```.*\n)

^start of line

```the literal text ```

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

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

Group 2(.*?\*\*(.*?)\*\*.*$\n)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

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

\*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

Group 3(.*?)

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

\*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

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

$end of line

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

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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Regular Expression

(^```.*\n)(.*?\*\*(.*?)\*\*.*$\n)*

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