Variable: org-heading-regexp
org-heading-regexp is a variable defined in org.el.gz.
Value
"^\\(\\*+\\)\\(?: +\\(.*?\\)\\)?[ ]*$"
Documentation
Matches a headline, putting stars and text into groups.
Stars are put in group 1 and the trimmed body in group 2.
Source Code
;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/org/org.el.gz
(defvar org-heading-regexp "^\\(\\*+\\)\\(?: +\\(.*?\\)\\)?[ \t]*$"
"Matches a headline, putting stars and text into groups.
Stars are put in group 1 and the trimmed body in group 2.")