Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(<[^>]*?)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^>]*?

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

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Group 2(\ssrc=)

\sany whitespace character

src=the literal text src= (case sensitive)

Group 3(.*?\/?>)

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

\/?optionally matches the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

>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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25 tokens

Regular Expression

(<[^>]*?)(\ssrc=)(.*?\/?>)

New

<img data-class="bar" src="foo.img" class="bar" alt="image" />
<iframe src="foo2.html" class="bar2" title="test"></iframe>
<p>This is a sentence with the string src= in it.</p>
<img data-src="foofoo.jpg" alt="I can haz data-src" class="databar" />

Regular Expression

Extraction