Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(<([^\/>]+)>)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Group 2([^\/>]+)

Negated Character Class[^\/>]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Non-Capturing Group(?:([\s\S]*?)\s+)??

??repeats the group contents below at most once:

Group 3([\s\S]*?)

Character Class[\s\S]*?

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

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group 4(<\/\2>)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\2the text saved by group 2

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

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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Regular Expression

(<([^\/>]+)>)\s+(?:([\s\S]*?)\s+)??(<\/\2>)

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...
 <typ>
  TYPE_1
 </typ>
 <rte>
  AL38941XXXXX
 </rte>
 <sts>
  ADDED
 </sts>
 <sts>
  
 </sts>
 <sts>
</sts>
 <sts></sts>
...