regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

<athe literal text <a (case insensitive)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

href="httpthe literal text href="http (case insensitive)

s?optionally matches the literal s (115₁₀ / 163₈ / 73₁₆) (case insensitive)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\/?optionally matches the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:www\.)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

wwwthe literal text www (case insensitive)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

Group 1((?:(?!-)[A-Za-z0-9-]{1,63}(?<!-)\.)+[A-Za-z]{2,8})

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?!-)[A-Za-z0-9-]{1,63}(?<!-)\.)+

+repeats the group contents below at least once:

Negative Lookahead(?!-)

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

Character Class[A-Za-z0-9-]{1,63}

{1,63}matches between 1 and 63 characters from the set below:

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case insensitive)

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case insensitive)

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

Negative Lookbehind(?<!-)

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

Character Class[A-Za-z]{2,8}

{2,8}matches between 2 and 8 characters from the set below:

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case insensitive)

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case insensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?:"|\/)

1st Alternative"

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

2nd Alternative\/

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

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

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:https?:\/\/)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

httpthe literal text http (case insensitive)

s?optionally matches the literal s (115₁₀ / 163₈ / 73₁₆) (case insensitive)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:www\.)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

wwwthe literal text www (case insensitive)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

\1the text saved by group 1

Global pattern flags

i modifier: insensitive. Matches without distinguishing uppercase and lowercase letters

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

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

Search reference

Regular Expression

<a\s+href="https?:\/\/?(?:www\.)?((?:(?!-)[A-Za-z0-9-]{1,63}(?<!-)\.)+[A-Za-z]{2,8})(?:"|\/).*?>(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?\1

New

<span style="color:rgb(128,0,0);font-weight:bold">&gt;       Оформлен заказ в магазине <a href="http://www.test1.com" target="_blank">test1.com</a>              </spant-family:arial,sans-serif>
<a href="http://test.site.com/11222/sdf.html">http://www.test.site.com</a><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">SOME MESSAGE TEXT</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.test2.com/">www.test2.com/123/test</a>
SOME TEXT</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.TEsst.com/">https://tesst.com</a><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> === =size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://site.org">site.org</a>

Regular Expressions 101

Regular Expression

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