Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternative.*?id="(.*?)".*?time">(.*?)<\/.*?subject">\[(.*?)\].*?

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

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

Group 1(.*?)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

time">the literal text time"> (case sensitive)

Group 2(.*?)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

subject">the literal text subject"> (case sensitive)

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

Group 3(.*?)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

2nd Alternative.*$

.*any character, repeated any number of times

$end of string, or before its final line terminator

Global pattern flags

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

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

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Regular Expression

.*?id="(.*?)".*?time">(.*?)<\/.*?subject">\[(.*?)\].*?|.*$

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