Regular Expressions 101

\ban ASCII word boundary

Group 1((?:[A-Z]\w+\s?)+)

Non-Capturing Group(?:[A-Z]\w+\s?)+

+repeats the group contents below at least once:

Character Class[A-Z]

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\s?optionally matches any whitespace character

\sany whitespace character

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

Pthe literal P (80₁₀ / 120₈ / 50₁₆) (case sensitive)

Character Class[A-Z]

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) 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

Regular Expression

\b((?:[A-Z]\w+\s?)+)\s\(P[A-Z]

New

abcdefg Mark Jones (PP) etc etc
akslaskAS Taylor Daniel Lautner (PMB) blabla
etcetc Allan Stewart Konigsberg Farrow (PRTW)
Akakka Alall (PA)
FOO bar FOo bar bar FOO BAR (PA) Foo

Substitution

abcdefg Mark Jones (PP) etc etc
akslaskAS Taylor Daniel Lautner (PMB) blabla
etcetc Allan Stewart Konigsberg Farrow (PRTW)
Akakka Alall (PA)
FOO bar FOo bar bar FOO BAR (PA) Foo