Regular Expressions 101

Positive Lookbehind(?<=<center> )

<center> the literal text <center> (case sensitive)

Group 1(.*)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Positive Lookahead(?=<\/b><\/center>)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

b><the literal text b>< (case sensitive)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

center>the literal text center> (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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Search reference

Regular Expression

(?<=<center><b><br>)(.*)(?=<\/b><\/center>)

Test String
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//EXAMPLE 1
<center>DB Results:</center><center><b><br>ripster.ultima</b></center><center><b><br>raghav.jhavar</b></center></center></td></tr></table>

//EXAMPLE 2
<center>DB Results:</center><center><b><br>ripster.ultima</b></center>
<center><b><br>raghav.jhavar</b></center></center></td></tr></table>

Regular Expression

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