Regular Expressions 101

Positive Lookbehind(?<=<code>)

<code>the literal text <code> (case sensitive)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

<spanthe literal text <span (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^>]*?

*?matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Group 1(.*?)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

Positive Lookahead(?=<\/span>.*?<\/code)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

span>the literal text span> (case sensitive)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

codethe literal text code (case sensitive)

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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Search reference

Regular Expression

(?<=<code>).*?<span[^>]*?>(.*?)(?=<\/span>.*?<\/code)

New

<code>
	<div>
		<span ds = 'dsds'>12 3 ->;:4</span><span>abc</span>
	</div>
</code>