Regular Expressions 101

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 1([^<>]*?)

Negated Character Class[^<>]*?

*?matches any number of characters outside the set below:

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Positive Lookahead(?=[^>]+?<)

Negated Character Class[^>]+?

+?matches at least one character outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

"([^<>]*?)"(?=[^>]+?<)

New

<p>This is a "wonderful long text". "Another wonderful ong text" At least it should be. Here we have a <a href="http://wwww.site-to-nowhere.com" target="_blank">link</a>.</p>

Substitution

\<em\>\1\<\/em\>