Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Negative Lookahead(?!\s)

\sa Unicode whitespace character

Group 1([^][{}():,]+?)

Negated Character Class[^][{}():,]+?

+?matches at least one character outside the set below:

]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

{the literal { (123₁₀ / 173₈ / 7B₁₆)

}the literal } (125₁₀ / 175₈ / 7D₁₆)

(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

Positive Lookahead(?=\s*[,\):\]}])

\s*a Unicode whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Character Class[,\):\]}]

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

}the literal } (125₁₀ / 175₈ / 7D₁₆)

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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25 tokens

(?!\s)([^][{}():,]+?)(?=\s*[,\):\]}])

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