Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternative<a.*?<\/a>(*SKIP)(*F)

<athe literal text <a (case sensitive)

.*?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)

(*SKIP)acts like (*PRUNE), but the next unanchored match attempt starts where (*SKIP) was reached instead of at the next subject character

(*F)forces the current match attempt to fail at this position

2nd Alternative\d{3}

\d{3}a digit, repeated exactly 3 times

Global pattern flags

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

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Search reference

Regular Expression

<a.*?<\/a>(*SKIP)(*F)|\d{3}

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lor <a>111</a> em 222 ip <a><link />333</a> sum 444 do <a>x555</a> lo <a>z 666</a> res