Regex expression in plain english

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Published on 2010-05-11T01:03:08Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 1:04 UTC
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I'm working on a new Java project and therefore im reading the already existing code. On a very important part of the code if found the following regex expression and i can't really tell what they are doing. Anybody can explain in plain english what they do??

1)

 [^,]*|.+(,).+

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(\()?\d+(?(1)\))

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