regex101: JavaScript Match Workspace

Group tag(?<tag>.)

.any character (except for line terminators)

Non-Capturing Group(?: href="(?<url>.+?)")?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

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

Group url(?<url>.+?)

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

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Group text(?<text>.+?)

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

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

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

(?<tag>.)(?: href="(?<url>.+?)")?>(?<text>.+?)<

New

<p>The <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/23/contents">UK Bribery Act</a> (“the Act”) received Royal Assent in April 2010 and came into force in July 2011. It was designed to modernise and simplify the UK’s anti-corruption legislation and to more effectively address requirements imposed under the <a href="http://www.oecd.org/daf/anti-bribery/ConvCombatBribery_ENG.pdf">OECD anti-bribery Convention</a>. The Act outlined four prime offences, including the introduction of a new corporate offence of failure to prevent bribery. And the <b>rest is history</b> so is the ending.</p>

Regular Expressions 101

Regular Expression

Substitution