Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

CN=the literal text CN= (case sensitive)

Group 1(\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\W+any non-word character, repeated at least once

Group 2(\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

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

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

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

25 tokens

Regular Expression

^CN=(\w+)\W+(\w+).*

CN=Doe\, John,OU=Windows10WS,OU=Employees,OU=Users,OU=AFR,DC=org,DC=bssz,DC=com
CN=Doo\, Scooby,OU=WindowsSRV,OU=Manager,OU=Users,OU=NYC,DC=org,DC=nyc,DC=com

Extraction

CN=Doe\, John,OU=Windows10WS,OU=Employees,OU=Users,OU=AFR,DC=org,DC=bssz,DC=com
CN=Doo\, Scooby,OU=WindowsSRV,OU=Manager,OU=Users,OU=NYC,DC=org,DC=nyc,DC=com