regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

hrefthe literal text href (case sensitive)

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

Character Class[\'|\"]+?

+?matches at least one character from the set below:

\'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 1([^\'|\"]+)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

Negated Character Class[^\'|\"]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Character Class[\'|\"]

\'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

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

Search reference

Regular Expression

href.+?[\'|\"]+?([^\'|\"]+)?[\'|\"]

New

<a href='http://matrix.ms.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://matrix.ms.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1591284067791000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGSmpctZFZau9kOCv8xa9Abu8a-uQ">Matrix.ms.com</a>
<a href="http://matrix.ms.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://matrix.ms.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1591284067791000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGSmpctZFZau9kOCv8xa9Abu8a-uQ">Matrix.ms.com</a>

a.+?href.+?[\'|\"]+?([^\'|\"]+)?[\'|\"]

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