Regular Expressions 101

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^start of line

<i>the literal text <i> (case sensitive)

Group 1([\s\S]*?)

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)

i>the literal text i> (case sensitive)

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

Group 2([0-9]*)

Character Class[0-9]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

$end of line

Global pattern flags

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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

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^<i>([\s\S]*?)<\/i>\s*\(([0-9]*)\)$

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