Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(<a[^>]*href="\/.+\/public\/(.*\/)?)

<athe literal text <a (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^>]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

href="the literal text href=" (case sensitive)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

.+any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

publicthe literal text public (case sensitive)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Group 2(.*\/)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

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

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Group 3("[^>]*>)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^>]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>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

(<a[^>]*href="\/.+\/public\/(.*\/)?)("[^>]*>)

New

<a href="/foo/public/">
<a class="foo" href="/foo/public/">
<a href="/foo/public/" class="foo">
<a title="foo" href="/foo/public/bar/" class="foo">
<a href="/foo/public/bar/">
<a href="/foo/public/baz/">
<a href="foo/public/">
<a href="http:/somewhere.com/foo/public/">
<a href="/-/public/">

Substitution

$1index.html$3