How can I search for a specific string pattern that has variations on the matches to that pattern?. I'm trying to find two regexp patterns:

So I use (\s-\r)|(:\r) This works, but its pattern 2 that matches different variations. As an example, in my text file, I can have different pattern 2 cases like this:

What I'm looking for is to perhaps modify my reg exp in such a way that pattern 2 only matches match2a. I want to exclude the match2b/c matches. I thought along the lines of:

(\s-\r)|(:\r)([^:\r(\d|\w]))

But of course this doesn't work. Any suggestions.

In reply to Reg Exp to handle variations in the matched pattern by markjrouse

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