Regular Expressions 101

Explanation
Pro

^start of string

<athe literal text <a (case sensitive)

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

href="the literal text href=" (case sensitive)

Group 1((?:.*)carSale(?:.*))

Non-Capturing Group(?:.*)

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

carSalethe literal text carSale (case sensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?:.*)

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

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

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

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Group 2(.*)

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

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

a>the literal text a> (case sensitive)

$end of string

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26 tokens

^<a.*href="((?:.*)carSale(?:.*))".*>(.*)<\/a>$

New

<a target="_" href="/carSale/12/..">link1</a>