Regular Expressions 101

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

Group 1(.*?)

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

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

{the literal { (123₁₀ / 173₈ / 7B₁₆)

.any character (except for line terminators)

deletionthe literal text deletion (case sensitive)

Group 2(.|\n)*?

*?repeats the group contents below any number of times:

1st Alternative.

.any character (except for line terminators)

2nd Alternative\n

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

}the literal } (125₁₀ / 175₈ / 7D₁₆)

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

\[(.*?)\]{.deletion(.|\n)*?}

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