Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(.*)

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

<athe literal text <a (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^=]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

=the literal = (61₁₀ / 75₈ / 3D₁₆)

="the literal text ="

Negated Character Class[^\/]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Group 2([^\/]+\/)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Negated Character Class[^\/]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Group 3(.*)

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

">the literal text ">

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

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

(.*)<a[^=]*="[^\/]*\/([^\/]+\/)*(.*)">.*

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Regular Expression

Substitution