Regular Expressions 101

Positive Lookbehind(?<=(<a href="#">))

Group 1(<a href="#">)

<a href="#">the literal text <a href="#"> (case sensitive)

Group 2([\s\S]| |w\[0-9]| )+?

+?repeats the group contents below at least once:

1st Alternative[\s\S]

Character Class[\s\S]

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

2nd Alternative

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

3rd Alternativew\[0-9]

wthe literal w (119₁₀ / 167₈ / 77₁₆) (case sensitive)

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

0-9]the literal text 0-9]

4th Alternative

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

Positive Lookahead(?=(<\/a>))

Group 3(<\/a>)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

a>the literal text a> (case sensitive)

Global pattern flags

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

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

(?<=(<a href="#">))([\s\S]| |w\[0-9]| )+?(?=(<\/a>))

New

<ul><li><a href="#">test1</a></li><li><a href="#">test2</a></li><a href="#">test3</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="#">test1</a></li><li><a href="#">test2</a></li><a href="#">test3</a></li></ul>