Regular Expressions 101

Pro

<athe literal text <a (case sensitive)

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

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

monitorythe literal text monitory (case sensitive)

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

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

href=the literal text href= (case sensitive)

Character Class["|']

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Group 1([http:|https:]?[\/\/]?.*?)

Character Class[http:|https:]?

?matches at most one character from the set below:

hthe literal h (104₁₀ / 150₈ / 68₁₆) (case sensitive)

tthe literal t (116₁₀ / 164₈ / 74₁₆) (case sensitive)

pthe literal p (112₁₀ / 160₈ / 70₁₆) (case sensitive)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

sthe literal s (115₁₀ / 163₈ / 73₁₆) (case sensitive)

Character Class[\/\/]?

?matches at most one character from the set below:

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

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

Character Class["|']

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

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

<a.*?\[monitory\].*?href=["|']([http:|https:]?[\/\/]?.*?)["|']>

New

<a [monitory] href="http://www.link1.com"><a [monitory] href="http://www.link2.com">

<a [monitory] href="http://www.link1.com"><a [monitory] href="http://www.link2.com">