Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternativeid="address">(.*?)<

id="address">the literal text id="address"> (case sensitive)

Group 1(.*?)

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

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

2nd Alternative (.*?) : (.*?)

the literal text (case sensitive)

Group 2(.*?)

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

: the literal text :

Group 3(.*?)

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

the literal text (case sensitive)

3rd Alternative(?<= )(.*?)&

Positive Lookbehind(?<= )

the literal text (case sensitive)

Group 4(.*?)

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

&the literal & (38₁₀ / 46₈ / 26₁₆)

4th Alternative(\$[^&]+)

Group 5(\$[^&]+)

\$the literal $ (36₁₀ / 44₈ / 24₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^&]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

&the literal & (38₁₀ / 46₈ / 26₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

Search reference

Regular Expression

id="address">(.*?)<|<br>(.*?) : (.*?)<br>|(?<=<br>)(.*?)&|(\$[^&]+)

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<strong id="address">1245 DUPONT ST</strong><br>Toronto : Metro Toronto<br>14 Aug 2015&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$71,000,000&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="#CC0000"></font>