Regular Expressions 101

<a class="biz-namethe literal text <a class="biz-name (case sensitive)

Character Class[\w\W]*?

*?matches any number of characters from the set below:

\wany word character

\Wany non-word character

<span>the literal text <span> (case sensitive)

Group 1(.*?)

.*?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

<a class="biz-name[\w\W]*?<span>(.*?)<\/span>

New

<a class="biz-name"><span>Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken</span></a>
<a class="biz-name"><span>South City Kitchen - Midtown</span></a>