<athe literal text <a (case sensitive) ?optionally matches the literal (3210 / 408 / 2016)
.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times
href="the literal text href=" (case sensitive) Non-Capturing Group(?:(?:.*?example\.com.*?)|(?:[^\.]*?)) 1st Alternative(?:.*?example\.com.*?) Non-Capturing Group(?:.*?example\.com.*?) .*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times
examplethe literal text example (case sensitive) \.the literal . (4610 / 568 / 2E16)
comthe literal text com (case sensitive) .*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times
2nd Alternative(?:[^\.]*?) Non-Capturing Group(?:[^\.]*?) Negated Character Class[^\.]*? *?matches any number of characters outside the set below:
\.the literal . (4610 / 568 / 2E16)
"the literal " (3410 / 428 / 2216)
.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times
>the literal > (6210 / 768 / 3E16)
.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times
<the literal < (6010 / 748 / 3C16)
\/the literal / (4710 / 578 / 2F16)
a>the literal text a> (case sensitive) 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