Regular Expressions 101

Negative Lookbehind(?<!\\)

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:\[{2}[^\n|]+(?:\|[^\n]+)?]]|\[[^\n]+]\([^\n:]+\))

1st Alternative\[{2}[^\n|]+(?:\|[^\n]+)?]]

\[{2}the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆) , repeated exactly 2 times

Negated Character Class[^\n|]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

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

|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:\|[^\n]+)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

\|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\n]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

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

]]the literal text ]]

2nd Alternative\[[^\n]+]\([^\n:]+\)

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\n]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

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

]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\n:]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

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

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

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Regular Expression

(?<!\\)(?:\[{2}[^\n|]+(?:\|[^\n]+)?]]|\[[^\n]+]\([^\n:]+\))

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