Regular Expressions 101

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Group 1(ul|ol)

1st Alternativeul

ulthe literal text ul (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativeol

olthe literal text ol (case sensitive)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

<li>{the literal text <li>{ (case sensitive)

Group 2([ .\w-]+)

Character Class[ .\w-]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

\wany word character

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

}the literal } (125₁₀ / 175₈ / 7D₁₆)

*the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆) , repeated any number of times

Group 3(.*?)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\1the text saved by group 1

>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

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

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Search reference

Regular Expression

<(ul|ol)>\s*<li>{([ .\w-]+)} *(.*?)<\/\1>

New


<ul>
	<li>{ .class .asdf}some item</li>
	<li>another</li>
</ul>

<ul>
	<li>{.class} some item</li>
	<li>another</li>
</ul>

<p>{.test}Content of the paragrap
</p>


<([a-z\-]+)>{([ \w\.-]+)} *(.*?)<\/\1>