Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Group 1([^(]+)

Negated Character Class[^(]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

Group 2(.*?;)

.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

;the literal ; (59₁₀ / 73₈ / 3B₁₆)

Group 3(CAT.*)

CATthe literal text CAT (case sensitive)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

$end of line

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

^([^(]+)(.*?;)(CAT.*)$

New

aarhus(iof>city>thing,equ>arhus);CAT(CATN),N(NP) ;
abadan(iof>city>thing);CAT(CATN),N(NP) ;
abandon(icl>leave>do,agt>person,obj>person);CAT(CATV),AUX(AVOIR),VAL1(GN) ;

Substitution

$1$2$1;$3

aarhus(iof>city>thing,equ>arhus);CAT(CATN),N(NP) ;
abadan(iof>city>thing);CAT(CATN),N(NP) ;
abandon(icl>leave>do,agt>person,obj>person);CAT(CATV),AUX(AVOIR),VAL1(GN) ;