Regular Expressions 101

Character Class[\r|\n|^<]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

\ra carriage return (ASCII 13)

|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

|the literal | (124₁₀ / 174₈ / 7C₁₆)

^the literal ^ (94₁₀ / 136₈ / 5E₁₆)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Group 1(<a([^*>]+>)|<\/a>)

1st Alternative<a([^*>]+>)

<athe literal text <a (case sensitive)

Group 2([^*>]+>)

Negated Character Class[^*>]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

2nd Alternative<\/a>

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

a>the literal text a> (case sensitive)

Global pattern flags

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

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Regular Expression

[\r|\n|^<]*(<a([^*>]+>)|<\/a>)

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