Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Group 1(\<li\>(?:\n)*(?:.*)(?:\n)*\<\/li\>)

\<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

lithe literal text li (case sensitive)

\>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:\n)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

Non-Capturing Group(?:.*)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Non-Capturing Group(?:\n)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

\<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

lithe literal text li (case sensitive)

\>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

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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25 tokens

(\<li\>(?:\n)*(?:.*)(?:\n)*\<\/li\>)

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