Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(<body[^>]*>)

<bodythe literal text <body (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^>]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Group 2() — does not consume characters

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

(<body[^>]*>)()

New

<body tag>
<body
  tag- oh no it matched across
     multiple lines>
<body alink="some_image_name_with_<brackets>_.png" >