Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

Negative Lookahead(?!.*(?:<div|<\/div>))

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

Non-Capturing Group(?:<div|<\/div>)

1st Alternative<div

<divthe literal text <div (case sensitive)

2nd Alternative<\/div>

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

div>the literal text div> (case sensitive)

Group 1(.+?)

.+?any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

Positive Lookahead(?=<br\s?\/>|$)

1st Alternative<br\s?\/>

<brthe literal text <br (case sensitive)

\s?optionally matches any whitespace character

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

2nd Alternative$

$end of line

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

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Search reference

Regular Expression

^(?!.*(?:<div|<\/div>))(.+?)(?=<br\s?\/>|$)

New

<div class="latestItemIntroText">

        <div class="itemLinks">
            <div class="share">Share</div>
            <div class="dummy-div"></div>

            <div class="addthis_sharing_toolbox"></div>

        </div>
     Lorem ipsum <br /><br />
     Lorem ipsum <br /><br />
     Lorem ipsum <br /><br />
     Lorem ipsum <br /><br />
Other Text works too.
<div>
some inner text
</div>

 </div>

Regular Expression

Extraction