Regex help please?

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• Sena

  June 2014 edited June 2014

  I don't have the exact say lines for reference, so I can't make the exact pattern you'll want, but basically what you want is something like:

  ^(\w+) (happily |sadly )?(whispers?|says?|exclaims?)( to \w+)?( in Mhaldorian)?( in a [\w ]+ voice)?, ".+"$

  For some explanation of what that means: (thing|otherthing) will match either of the two options there. ? is a modifier that makes the previous pattern to match 0 or 1 times. So (thing|otherthing)? will match "thing", "otherthing" or nothing. You could also do (thing|otherthing|) to get the same result. \w+ matches any alphanumeric string (not spaces, so it will only match one word). [stuff] matches any of the characters within the brackets, in this case [\w ] matches any letters, numbers, or spaces, and the + after it means that it matches one or more of those characters.

  Edit: Two things I forgot to mention. ? after a normal character instead of a regex pattern applies only to that character, so "whispers?" will match "whisper" or "whispers". And the things in parentheses will be captured to %1, %2, etc. (or whatever your client uses), which you can avoid if you want to by adding ?: inside the parentheses, (?:thing|otherthing) for example.
  

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• Sherazad Planef Urth

  June 2014

  Wow, thanks for the indepth explanation, @Sena! I can use that in other stuff too.
  

  Bleh, work ate my gaming life.
  내가 제일 잘 나가!!!111!!1
  

  
  

  
  

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