Regular Expressions 101

Pro

<divthe literal text <div (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^>]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?!</div>)[\s\S])*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Negative Lookahead(?!</div>)

</div>the literal text </div> (case sensitive)

Character Class[\s\S]

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

searched stringthe literal text searched string (case sensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?!</div)[\s\S])*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Negative Lookahead(?!</div)

</divthe literal text </div (case sensitive)

Character Class[\s\S]

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

</div>the literal text </div> (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

<div[^>]*>(?:(?!</div>)[\s\S])*searched string(?:(?!</div)[\s\S])*</div>

New

<div class="testclass">random example text</div>
<div id="testid">foo bar foo searched string foo bar</div>