Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(<textarea[\s\S]+?<\/textarea>)

<textareathe literal text <textarea (case sensitive)

Character Class[\s\S]+?

+?matches at least one character from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

textarea>the literal text textarea> (case sensitive)

Global pattern flags

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

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Regular Expression

(<textarea[\s\S]+?<\/textarea>)

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<p>
	<textarea class="ckeditor-basic" cols="100" name="textAreaName" required="required" rows="5">
		<p>5051950</p>
	</textarea>
</p>

<p><textarea class="ckeditor-basic" cols="100" name="textAreaName" required="required" rows="5">

a é í <abc>

</textarea></p>

<p><textarea class="ckeditor-basic" cols="100" name="textAreaName" required="required" rows="5"></textarea></p>