Regular Expressions 101

Pro

<scriptthe literal text <script (case insensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

Negated Character Class[^<]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?!<\/script>)<[^<]*)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Negative Lookahead(?!<\/script>)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

script>the literal text script> (case insensitive)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^<]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

scriptthe literal text script (case insensitive)

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

i modifier: insensitive. Matches without distinguishing uppercase and lowercase letters

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25 tokens

<script\b[^<]*(?:(?!<\/script>)<[^<]*)*<\/script\s*>

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