Regular Expressions 101

.*any character, repeated any number of times

"profile-info">the literal text "profile-info"> (case sensitive)

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

Group 1(.*?)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

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

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

div>the literal text div> (case sensitive)

.*any character, repeated any number of times

"post-content">the literal text "post-content"> (case sensitive)

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

Group 2(.*?)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

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

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

div>the literal text div> (case sensitive)

.*any character, repeated any number of times

Global pattern flags

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

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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Regular Expression

.*"profile-info">\s*(.*?)\s*<\/div>.*"post-content">\s*(.*?)\s*<\/div>.*

Test String
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<html>
  <head>
  <head>
  <body>
    <div class="content">
      <div class="profile-info">
        bla bla
      </div>
      <div class="post-content">
        blabla
      </div>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Regular Expression

Test StringNew

Test String
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