Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternativehref=(?:"[^"]*"|'[^']*')

href=the literal text href= (case sensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?:"[^"]*"|'[^']*')

1st Alternative"[^"]*"

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

2nd Alternative'[^']*'

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^']*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

2nd Alternative([.,])

Group 1([.,])

Character Class[.,]

.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

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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Regular Expression

href=(?:"[^"]*"|'[^']*')|([.,])

New

test . <a id="" href=".">test</a> test <a href="test" class=""></a> test with a . dot here

href="text.test" test . test, test href='test'