Regular Expressions 101

Pro

<SomeXmlPropertythe literal text <SomeXmlProperty (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^<]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

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26 tokens

Regular Expression

<SomeXmlProperty[^<]*\/>

New

<SomeXmlProperty att="abc" 
att2="def"
att3="ghi"/>
<SomeXmlProperty att4="jkl" 
att5="mno"
att6="pqr"><SomeXmlProperty>
<SomeXmlProperty att="stu" 
att3="vwx"
att6="yz"   
/>

Extraction

<SomeXmlProperty att="abc" 
att2="def"
att3="ghi"/>
<SomeXmlProperty att4="jkl" 
att5="mno"
att6="pqr"><SomeXmlProperty>
<SomeXmlProperty att="stu" 
att3="vwx"
att6="yz"   
/>