Regular Expressions 101

the literal text (case sensitive)

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

Group 1( )

the literal text (case sensitive)

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

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

span>the literal text span> (case sensitive)

Global pattern flags

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

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Search reference

Regular Expression

<span class='indent'>.*?(<br>).*?<\/span>

New

<span class='together'>line one,<br><span class='indent'>line two.</span><br>Line three,<br><span class='indent'>line four,<br>line five,<br>line six,<br>line seven;<br>line eight.<br>Line nine;<br>line ten,<br>line eleven,<br>line twelve.</span><br>Line thriteen,<br><span class='indent'>line fourteen,<br>line fifteen,<br>line sixteen,<br>line seventeen,<br>line eighteen.</span></span>

Regular Expression

Substitution