Regular Expressions 101

<variablethe literal text <variable (case sensitive)

\sany whitespace character

Negated Character Class[^>]*?

*?matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

name=the literal text name= (case sensitive)

Character Class['"]

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

testthe literal text test (case sensitive)

Character Class['"]

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^>]*

*matches any number of characters 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)

variable>the literal text variable> (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

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Regular Expression

<variable\s[^>]*?name=['"]test['"][^>]*>(.*?)<\/variable>

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