regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Substitution Workspace

^start of line

Group 1([^:]+)

Negated Character Class[^:]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

: the literal text :

Group 2([^\n]+[\n]*)

Negated Character Class[^\n]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

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

Character Class[\n]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

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

Group 3(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

\1the text saved by group 1

: the literal text :

Group 4([^\n]+[\n]*)

Negated Character Class[^\n]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

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

Character Class[\n]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

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

Group 5(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

\1the text saved by group 1

: the literal text :

Group 6([^\n]+[\n]*)

Negated Character Class[^\n]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

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

Character Class[\n]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

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

Group 7(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

\1the text saved by group 1

: the literal text :

Group 8([^\n]+[\n]*)

Negated Character Class[^\n]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

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

Character Class[\n]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

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

Group 9(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

\1the text saved by group 1

: the literal text :

Group 10([^\n]+[\n]*)

Negated Character Class[^\n]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

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

Character Class[\n]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

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

Group 11(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

\1the text saved by group 1

: the literal text :

Group 12([^\n]+[\n]*)

Negated Character Class[^\n]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

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

Character Class[\n]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

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

Group 13(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?

Group 15(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?

Group 17(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?

Group 19(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?

Group 21(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?

Group 23(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?

Group 25(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?

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

Search reference

Regular Expression

^([^:]+): ([^\n]+[\n]*)(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?(\1: ([^\n]+[\n]*))?

New

a: 1, 2, 3
a: a, b, v
a: v, f, g
a: 4, 5, 6
a: 8, 9, 10
a: 11, 12, 13
a: 14, 15, 16
a: 17, 18, 19
a: 20, 21, 22
a: 23, 24, 25
a: 26, 27, 28
a: 29, 30, 31
b: 5, 6, 7
b: 10, 1543, 1345
b: e, fe, sdf
cd: asdf, asdfas dfasdfa,asdfasdfa,afdsfa sdf
e1: asdfas, dafasd, adsf, asdfasd
e1: 1, 3, 2
e1: 9, 8, 7, 6

Substitution

\n\1:\t\2\t\4\t\6\t\8\t\10\t\12\t\14\t\16\t\18\t\20\t\22\t\24