Regular Expressions 101

<a the literal text <a (case insensitive)

Negated Character Class[^>]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

href="httpthe literal text href="http (case insensitive)

s?optionally matches the literal s (115₁₀ / 163₈ / 73₁₆) (case insensitive)

://the literal text ://

Non-Capturing Group(?:www\.|)

1st Alternativewww\.

wwwthe literal text www (case insensitive)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

2nd Alternative — matches an empty string

mysitethe literal text mysite (case insensitive)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

comthe literal text com (case insensitive)

Negated Character Class[^>]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Group 1(.*?)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

</a>the literal text </a> (case insensitive)

Global pattern flags

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

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

i modifier: insensitive. Matches without distinguishing uppercase and lowercase letters

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

<a [^>]*href="https?://(?:www\.|)mysite\.com[^>]*>(.*?)</a>

New

Текст бла бла <a href="http://mysite.com/">Ankor</a> text text 
text <a href="http://outsite.com/">Ankor</a> text text
Текст бла бла <a href="http://mysite.com/page">Ankor</a> text

Regular Expression

Extraction