Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternative< a.*?>

< athe literal text < a (case sensitive)

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

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

2nd Alternative<a.*?>

<athe literal text <a (case sensitive)

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

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

3rd Alternative<\/a>

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

a>the literal text a> (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.*?>|<a.*?>|<\/a>

New

<p>The man was <a href="http://www.example.com/video/">dancing like a little boy</a> while all kids were watching ... </p>
</a>
< a href="http://www.example.com/video/">

Regular Expression

Extraction