regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

<td class="name">the literal text <td class="name"> (case sensitive)

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

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

<athe literal text <a (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^>]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Group 1(.*)

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

Positive Lookahead(?=<\/a>)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

a>the literal text a> (case sensitive)

Global pattern flags

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

Search reference

Regular Expression

<td class="name">\n\s+<a[^>]+>(.*)(?=<\/a>)

New

<header class="ipl-header">
    <div class="ipl-header__content">
        <h4 name="producers" id="producers" class="ipl-header__content ipl-list-title">
            Produced by
        </h4>
    </div>
    <a class="ipl-header__edit-link" href="https://contribute.imdb.com/updates?update=tt2527336:producers">Edit</a>
</header>
<table class="subpage_data spFirst crew_list">
    <tbody>
    <tr class="even">
        <td class="name">
            <a href="/name/nm0009190/?ref_=tt_rv"
            >J.J. Abrams</a>
        </td>
        <td>...</td>
        <td>executive producer</td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="odd">
        <td class="name">
            <a href="/name/nm0027297/?ref_=tt_rv"
            >Pippa Anderson</a>
        </td>
        <td>...</td>
        <td>co-producer</td>
    </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

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