Regular Expressions 101

\|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

Positive Lookahead(?=.*[\r\n]+\|-+\|$)

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

Character Class[\r\n]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\ra carriage return (ASCII 13)

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

\|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

-+the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆) , repeated at least once

\|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

$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

Regular Expression

\|(?=.*[\r\n]+\|-+\|$)

New

| A | B | C |
|-----------|
Ignore this line
| And | Ignore | This |
| D | E | F | G |
|---------------|

^

| A | B | C |
|-----------|
Ignore this line
| And | Ignore | This |
| D | E | F | G |
|---------------|