Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

^start of line

Sthe literal S (83₁₀ / 123₈ / 53₁₆) (case sensitive)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Positive Lookahead(?=, [A-RT-Z])

, the literal text ,

Character Class[A-RT-Z]

A-Rone character from A (65₁₀) to R (82₁₀) (case sensitive)

T-Zone character from T (84₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

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\w+(?=, [A-RT-Z])

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Duncan, Jean
Schmidt, Paul
Sells, Simon
Martin, Jane
Smith, Peter
Stephens, Sheila

Duncan, Jean
Schmidt, Paul
Sells, Simon
Martin, Jane
Smith, Peter
Stephens, Sheila