Regular Expressions 101

<span id=pink>the literal text <span id=pink> (case sensitive)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

span>the literal text span> (case sensitive)

Group 1(.*?)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

Positive Lookahead(?=<span|$)

1st Alternative<span

<spanthe literal text <span (case sensitive)

2nd Alternative$

$end of string, or before its final line terminator

Global pattern flags

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

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

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Search reference

Regular Expression

<span id=pink>.*?<\/span>(.*?)(?=<span|$)

New

<span id=pink>some short text</span>
  more text that can be a few lines
 <span id=pink>again a short text</span> 
 More text that's abiding the same logic
<span id=pink>Repeat</span>...(more of these)

Regular Expression

Substitution