Regular Expressions 101

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Group 1(.*?)

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

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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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Search reference

Regular Expression

<!--(.*?)-->

New

    <div class="col-lg-12">
    <p>The year is:</p>
    <!-- <?php echo date(Y); ?> -->
    </div>

$1