Regular Expressions 101

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Group 1(\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

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

class="wp-caption-text"the literal text class="wp-caption-text" (case sensitive)

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

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Character Class[\s\S]*?

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

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\1the text saved by group 1

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

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Search reference

Regular Expression

<(\w+).*?class="wp-caption-text".*?>[\s\S]*?<\/\1>

New

<p class="wp-caption-text"><span>android m marshmallow</span></p>

<html>
	<body>
		<img src="a6marshmallow.jpg"/>
		<p class="wp-caption-text"><span>android m marshmallow</span></p>
		<div class="wp-caption-text"><p>a more complex example :oooooo</p></div>
	</body>
</html>

Regular Expression

Substitution