Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Non-Capturing Group(?:.)*?

*?repeats the group contents below any number of times:

.any character (except for line terminators)

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

Group 1(.*?)

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

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

li>the literal text li> (case sensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?:.?)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

.?optionally matches any character (except for line terminators)

Global pattern flags

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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

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25 tokens

(?:.)*?<li>(.*?)<\/li>(?:.?)*

New

<ul>
<li>foo</li>
<li>bar</li>
<li>oof</li>
</ul>

<ul>
<li>foo</li>
<li>bar</li>
<li>oof</li>
</ul>