Regular Expressions 101

<i class="date">the literal text <i class="date"> (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)

i>the literal text i> (case sensitive)

Character Class[\s\S]*?

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

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

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

Group 2(.*)

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

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

i>the literal text i> (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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Regular Expression

<i class="date">(.*)<\/i>[\s\S]*?<i>(.*)<\/i>

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