Try pasting it into https://regexr.com

That's what I usually use to translate regex into English :-)



On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 10:20 AM Howard <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can someone explain how the REGEX code below works?
> *(.)(?![^(]*\))*
>
> I know it looks for digits, including two-digit numbers in parentheses,
> and extracts them and inserts a space after each one, but I do not know how
> the code starting with *(?* works.
>
> Here is sample data for it:
> 010000000
> (10)1140006x
> 002200010
> 00000(11)01x
> 311200
>
> Here is output:
> 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> (10) 1 1 4 0 0 0 6 x
> 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 0
> 0 0 0 0 0 (11) 0 1 x
> 3 1 1 2 0 0
>
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