Regular Expressions 101

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1st Alternative[\n\r\t]+

Character Class[\n\r\t]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

\ra carriage return (ASCII 13)

\ta tab character (ASCII 9)

2nd Alternative<textarea.*?</textarea>(*SKIP)(*F)

<textareathe literal text <textarea (case sensitive)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

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

(*SKIP)acts like (*PRUNE), but the next unanchored match attempt starts where (*SKIP) was reached instead of at the next subject character

(*F)forces the current match attempt to fail at this position

Global pattern flags

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

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

25 tokens

[\n\r\t]+|<textarea.*?</textarea>(*SKIP)(*F)

New

a		b		c
<textarea> a		b		c </textarea>
a		b		c

a		b		c
<textarea> a		b		c </textarea>
a		b		c