Regular Expressions 101

<tdthe literal text <td (case sensitive)

Group 1(.+|)

1st Alternative.+

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

2nd Alternative — matches an empty string

Group 2(class="myClass")

class="myClass"the literal text class="myClass" (case sensitive)

Group 3(.+|)

1st Alternative.+

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

2nd Alternative — matches an empty string

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Group 4(.+)

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

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

td>the literal text td> (case sensitive)

Global pattern flags

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

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Regular Expression

<td(.+|)(class="myClass")(.+|)>(.+)<\/td>

New

<td>I Dont want this</td>
<td class="myClass">I want this</td>
<td class="myClass" id="myID">I want this</td>
<td style="border-top-width: 0px; class="myClass">I want this</td>
<td class="niggaWhat" yoh how are you>as long as</td>

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