Regular Expressions 101

<span class='descr'>the literal text <span class='descr'> (case sensitive)

Group 1(.*?)

.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

span>the literal text span> (case sensitive)

Global pattern flags

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

<span class='descr'>(.*?)<\/span>

New

<span class='descr'>test, test2, test3</span>
<span class='descr'>test</span>
<span class='descr'>test4 test5</span>