Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(<a[^>]*)

<athe literal text <a (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^>]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Group 2([^<]*)

Negated Character Class[^<]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Group 3(<\/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

(<a[^>]*)>([^<]*)(<\/a>)

New

<ul>
<li><a href="www.google.com" target="blank">Google</a></li>
<li><a href="www.yahoo.com" target="blank">Yahoo</a></li>
<li><a href="www.bing.com" target="blank">Bing</a></li>
</ul>

Regular Expression

Extraction