Regular Expressions 101

Character Class[\s\S]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

Non-Capturing Group(?:location="([^"]*)")

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

Group 1([^"]*)

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Character Class[\s\S]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

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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25 tokens

Regular Expression

[\s\S]*(?:location="([^"]*)")[\s\S]*

New

<xxxx location="file path/level1/level1" xxxx some="xxx">
<xxxx location="file path/level1/level2" xxxx some="xxx">
<xxxx location="file path/level1/level3" xxxx some="xxx">

Extraction

<xxxx location="file path/level1/level1" xxxx some="xxx">
<xxxx location="file path/level1/level2" xxxx some="xxx">
<xxxx location="file path/level1/level3" xxxx some="xxx">