Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

href="the literal text href=" (case sensitive)

.any character (except for line terminators)

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

facebookthe literal text facebook (case sensitive)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

comthe literal text com (case sensitive)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Group 1(.[^"]*)

.any character (except for line terminators)

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

Match Information

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

Quick Reference

25 tokens

Regular Expression

href=".[^"]*facebook\.com\/(.[^"]*)

<div class="fb-page" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/dreamsportingtrips" data-tabs="timeline" data-small-header="false" data-adapt-container-width="true" data-hide-cover="false" data-show-facepile="true"><div class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore"><blockquote cite="https://www.facebook.com/dreamsportingtrips"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dreamsportingtrips">Dream Sporting Trips</a></blockquote></div></div>
<p>This works for links to facebook on images, or facebook widgets, etc</p>