Regular Expressions 101

Positive Lookbehind(?<=\w)

\wany word character

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Negative Lookbehind(?<!\/)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\**the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆) , repeated any number of times

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

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

(?<=\w)\s*(?<!\/)\**\s+

New

typedef struct job{
    struct job*  prev;  /* pointer to previous job   */
    void   (*function)(void* arg);  /* function pointer          */
    void*  arg;  /* function's argument       */
    void ** arg2;
    void *a;
} job;

Regular Expression

Extraction