Regular Expressions 101

Pro

<athe literal text <a (case insensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?:.*\>)

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

\>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Group 1(.*)

.*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 insensitive)

Global pattern flags

i modifier: insensitive. Matches without distinguishing uppercase and lowercase letters

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

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26 tokens

Regular Expression

<a(?:.*\>)(.*)<\/a>

New

<a>I don't want this</a>
startString
test1
<a>I want this1</a>
test2
<a>I want this2</a>
endString
gibberish
<a>I don't want this</a>
startString
test1
<a>I want this3</a>
test2
<a>I want this4</a>
endString
gibberish
<a>I don't want this</a>