Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

<pthe literal text <p (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^>]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Group 1(.*?)

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

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

p>the literal text p> (case sensitive)

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

Match Information

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Quick Reference

25 tokens

Regular Expression

<p[^>]+>(.*?)<\/p>

New

<p class='myClass1' id="myId1" style="font-weight: bold">some text <span>here</span></p>

<p class='myClass2' id="myId2" style="font-weight: bold">some more text <span>here</span></p>

Substitution

<p class='myClass1' id="myId1" style="font-weight: bold">some text <span>here</span></p>

<p class='myClass2' id="myId2" style="font-weight: bold">some more text <span>here</span></p>