Regular Expressions 101

startthe literal text start (case sensitive)

Group 1((?!\.\s(?!§)).)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Negative Lookahead(?!\.\s(?!§))

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

\sany whitespace character

Negative Lookahead(?!§)

§the literal § (167₁₀ / 247₈ / A7₁₆)

.any character (except for line terminators)

endthe literal text end (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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Regular Expression

start((?!\.\s(?!§)).)*end

New

for example those two strings should match:

start abc abc abc.end . 
start abc abc abc. §end 

but this string shouldn't match:

start abc abc abc. end.

Regular Expression

Substitution