Regular Expressions 101

<title>the literal text <title> (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^[:alnum:]]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

[:alnum:]an alphanumeric character [a-zA-Z0-9]

Group 1(.*?)

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

\sany whitespace character

Negated Character Class[^[:alnum:]]

[:alnum:]an alphanumeric character [a-zA-Z0-9]

Global pattern flags

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

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

<title>[^[:alnum:]]*(.*?)\s[^[:alnum:]]

New

"<title>title</title>" & @CRLF & _
"<title>»title-1 | wb1</title>" & @CRLF & _
"<title>®?tit-le2 &#8211 ; wb2</title>" & @CRLF & _
"<title>?tit@le3 – wb3</title>" & @CRLF & _
"<title>-title_4 _ wb4</title>" & @CRLF & _
"<title>_tit-le5 _ wb5</title>" & @CRLF & _
"<title> _ ti_tle6 _ wb6</title>"

Regular Expression

Extraction