Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Non-Capturing Group(?:\S+\s+){1}

{1}repeats the group contents below exactly 1 time:

\S+any non-whitespace character, repeated at least once

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group 1(\S+)

\S+any non-whitespace character, repeated at least once

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

$end of line

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+){1}(\S+).*$

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