The regular expression:
matches as follows:
NODE EXPLANATION
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(?-imsx: group, but do not capture (case-sensitive)
(with ^ and $ matching normally) (with . not
matching \n) (matching whitespace and #
normally):
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/ '/'
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( group and capture to \1:
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[^/]* any character except: '/' (0 or more
times (matching the most amount
possible))
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) end of \1
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$ before an optional \n, and the end of the
string
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) end of grouping
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Customarily, // are used as delimiters, but since it wants to match /, alternate delimiters are used (##) to avoid excessive escaping.
See also:
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