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Asked: 2026-05-10T21:15:32+00:00

I’ve got text in a form of [1/12/2008 2:32:11 p.m. – name] line 1

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I’ve got text in a form of

[1/12/2008 2:32:11 p.m. - name] line 1 [1/12/2008 2:36:00 p.m. - name] - PRIVATE line 2 [some text] sd [1/12/2008 2:36:00 p.m. - name] line 3

which i want to split into items so i have access to time, name and text of each item, 

e.g.: (item 1)   1: 1/12/2008 2:32:11 p.m.   2: name   3: line 1 (item 2)   1: 1/12/2008 2:36:00 p.m.   2: name   3:  - PRIVATE     line 2 [some text] sd (item 3)   1: 1/12/2008 2:36:00 p.m.   2: name   3: line 3

I was trying to come up with a single regex pattern to achieve this, but no luck:

\[([0-9\/ \:\.apm]+?) - ([a-z_\-0-9]+?)\](.*?\r\n.+?)(?:\[[0-9\/ \:\.apm]+? - [a-z_\-0-9]+?\])

This pattern above only returns the first item.

\[([0-9\/ \:\.apm]+?) - ([a-z_\-0-9]+?)\](.*?\r\n.+?)(?!\[[0-9\/ \:\.apm]+? - [a-z_\-0-9]+?\])

The pattern above returns all items, but only first character of the text (group 3)

Any suggestions?

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  1. It looks like this gets you what you want.

    \[([0-9\/ \:\.apm]+?) - ([a-z_\-0-9]+?)\](.*?\r\n.+.*?)

    I tested it out on my RegEx tester and it appears to get the proper format.

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