Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Group 1(href=")

href="the literal text href=" (case sensitive)

Group 2([^".]*[^".\/])

Negated Character Class[^".]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^".\/]

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Group 3(")

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

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

(href=")([^".]*[^".\/])(")

New

Matches

href="blah/foo"
href="foo"
Doesn't match

href="blah/foo.css"
href="blah/foo.ico"
href="blah/foo."
href="blah/"
href="blah/foo.css/"

$1$2.html$3

Matches

href="blah/foo"
href="foo"
Doesn't match

href="blah/foo.css"
href="blah/foo.ico"
href="blah/foo."
href="blah/"
href="blah/foo.css/"