Regular Expressions 101

<id:the literal text <id: (case sensitive)

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

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

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Character Class[\s\S]*?

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

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

Positive Lookahead(?=<id:\d+\/?>|$)

1st Alternative<id:\d+\/?>

<id:the literal text <id: (case sensitive)

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

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

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

2nd Alternative$

$end of string, or before its final line terminator

Global pattern flags

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

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

<id:\d+\/?>[\s\S]*?(?=<id:\d+\/?>|$)

New

<id:7/>Any text over here<id:8>Another text here (variable length and possibly including new line chars)<id:10>Yet another variable length string
with a 
newline in between.