Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Non-Capturing Group(?:<figcaption|(?!^)\G)

1st Alternative<figcaption

<figcaptionthe literal text <figcaption (case sensitive)

2nd Alternative(?!^)\G

Negative Lookahead(?!^)

^start of string

\Gstart of current search

Negated Character Class[^<#]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

#the literal # (35₁₀ / 43₈ / 23₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?:<(?!\/figcaption\b)|#\B)[^<#]*)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Non-Capturing Group(?:<(?!\/figcaption\b)|#\B)

1st Alternative<(?!\/figcaption\b)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Negative Lookahead(?!\/figcaption\b)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

figcaptionthe literal text figcaption (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

2nd Alternative#\B

#the literal # (35₁₀ / 43₈ / 23₁₆)

\Bnot an ASCII word boundary

Negated Character Class[^<#]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

#the literal # (35₁₀ / 43₈ / 23₁₆)

\Kresets the starting point of the reported match. Any previously consumed characters are no longer included in the final match

#the literal # (35₁₀ / 43₈ / 23₁₆)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Global pattern flags

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

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

25 tokens

(?:<figcaption|(?!^)\G)[^<#]*(?:(?:<(?!\/figcaption\b)|#\B)[^<#]*)*\K#\w+

New

<figcaption>blah # blah #hashtag1, #hashtag2</figcaption> #ee <figcaption>#ddddd

<figcaption>blah # blah #hashtag1, #hashtag2</figcaption> #ee <figcaption>#ddddd