Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

Group 1(<a.*href=)

<athe literal text <a (case sensitive)

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

href=the literal text href= (case sensitive)

Character Class["']

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Group 2(.*)

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

Character Class["']

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

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

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25 tokens

(<a.*href=)["'](.*)["']

New

<h2><a href="http://www.google.com/test">Link</a></h2>2014-54-22 22:23

\1"http://localhost/down.php?u=urldecode(\2)"

<h2><a href="http://www.google.com/test">Link</a></h2>2014-54-22 22:23