Regular Expressions 101

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\ban ASCII word boundary

Non-Capturing Group(?:YV[^\W_]{8}|S?VNA[^\W_]{5})

1st AlternativeYV[^\W_]{8}

YVthe literal text YV (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^\W_]{8}

{8}matches exactly 8 characters outside the set below:

\Wany non-word character

_the literal _ (95₁₀ / 137₈ / 5F₁₆)

2nd AlternativeS?VNA[^\W_]{5}

S?optionally matches the literal S (83₁₀ / 123₈ / 53₁₆) (case sensitive)

VNAthe literal text VNA (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^\W_]{5}

{5}matches exactly 5 characters outside the set below:

\Wany non-word character

_the literal _ (95₁₀ / 137₈ / 5F₁₆)

\ban ASCII word boundary

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(?:YV[^\W_]{8}|S?VNA[^\W_]{5})\b

New

There are four serial numbers in here: ;YV12345678. VNA1234A and ,VNAB4321 or :SVNA12345 here and a couple that won't be of interest YV123456789 VNA123456 or SVNA1234

2020-03-24 15:47:46 - (Work notes) Monitor, wired keyboard/mouse SVNA3L3A0 picked up equipment 2020-03-16 08:51:04 - (Work notes) Hello, I see that the monitor part of your ticket is incomplete. Update me with this information.