Regular Expressions 101

<athe literal text <a (case sensitive)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Negated Character Class[^>]*?

*?matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

\>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

nextthe literal text next (case sensitive)

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

<a\s+[^>]*?\>next

New

quick <a href="">brown</a> fox jumps <a href="">over</a> the <a href="">next</a> lazy dog!