Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(<(?<tag>\w+)(\s[^>]*)*>(?>[^<])*<\/\k<tag>\s*>)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Group tag(?<tag>\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Group 3(\s[^>]*)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

\sany whitespace character

Negated Character Class[^>]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Atomic Group(?>[^<])*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Negated Character Class[^<]

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\k<tag>the text saved by group tag

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

>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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Regular Expression

(<(?<tag>\w+)(\s[^>]*)*>(?>[^<])*<\/\k<tag>\s*>)

New

<div> <p> <b>BOLD</b> <ios>ITALIC</i> <b>BOLD</b> </p> </div>
<span class="title">Account</span>
<a class="component"><span class="bars"></span><span class="title">Report</span></a>
<p>IS A TAG</p>
<p>TAG NOT MATCHED</b>

Regular Expression

Extraction