Regular Expressions 101

Pro

<span class=the literal text <span class= (case sensitive)

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

selectthe literal text select (case sensitive)

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Character Class[\w\d\s\"=<>:./]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

\wa Unicode word character

\da Unicode decimal digit

\sa Unicode whitespace character

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

=the literal = (61₁₀ / 75₈ / 3D₁₆)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

><a href=the literal text ><a href= (case sensitive)

Character Class[\w\d\s\"<>:/.-]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\wa Unicode word character

\da Unicode decimal digit

\sa Unicode whitespace character

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

</a></span>the literal text </a></span> (case sensitive)

Global pattern flags

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

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

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

<span class=\"select\"[\w\d\s\"=<>:./]*><a href=[\w\d\s\"<>:/.-]+</a></span>

New

<span class="select" foo="1<>/"><a href="https://www.domain.tld">Word 1</a></span><span class="select"><a href="https://www.domain.tld">Word 2</a></span><span class="no_select"><a href="https://www.domain.tld">Word 3</a></span><span class="select" bar="2"><a href="https://www.domain.tld">Word 4</a></span>