Regular Expressions 101

Non-Capturing Group(?:\(|AND )

1st Alternative\(

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

2nd AlternativeAND

AND the literal text AND (case sensitive)

\Kresets the starting point of the reported match. Any previously consumed characters are no longer included in the final match

Negative Lookahead(?!red:|blue:|green:)

1st Alternativered:

red:the literal text red: (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativeblue:

blue:the literal text blue: (case sensitive)

3rd Alternativegreen:

green:the literal text green: (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^:]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

25 tokens

Regular Expression

(?:\(|AND )\K(?!red:|blue:|green:)[^:]*

New

(green:bar AND black:foo)
(blue:bar AND darkblue:foo)
(yellow:bar AND grey:foo)
(greengarden:bar AND red:foo)

(green:bar AND black:foo)
(blue:bar AND darkblue:foo)
(yellow:bar AND grey:foo)
(greengarden:bar AND red:foo)