regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

Explanation

Pro

Non-Capturing Group(?:<strong\b[^>]*>(?<name>.*?)<\/strong>|"myspecialaction\?.*?list=(?<id>[^&"]+))

1st Alternative<strong\b[^>]*>(?<name>.*?)<\/strong>

<strongthe literal text <strong (case insensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

Negated Character Class[^>]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Group name(?<name>.*?)

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

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

strong>the literal text strong> (case insensitive)

2nd Alternative"myspecialaction\?.*?list=(?<id>[^&"]+)

"myspecialactionthe literal text "myspecialaction (case insensitive)

\?the literal ? (63₁₀ / 77₈ / 3F₁₆)

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

list=the literal text list= (case insensitive)

Group id(?<id>[^&"]+)

Negated Character Class[^&"]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

&the literal & (38₁₀ / 46₈ / 26₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

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

Quick Reference

25 tokens

Regular Expression

(?:<strong\b[^>]*>(?<name>.*?)<\/strong>|"myspecialaction\?.*?list=(?<id>[^&"]+))

New

table>
    <tr>
        <td><strong>Name 1</strong></td>
        <td>Info and ignore <a href="/gohere"/>this</a></td>
        <td><a href="MySpecialAction?list=10000">Edit</a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td><strong>Name 2</strong></td>
        <td>Info and ignore <a href="/gohere"/>this</a></td>
        <td><a href="MySpecialAction?field=&list=10001">Edit</a></td>
    </tr>
<tr>
        <td><strong>Name 2</strong></td>
        <td>Info and ignore <a href="/gohere"/>this</a></td>
        <td><a href="MySpecialAction?field=&list=10002&something=whatever">Edit</a></td>
    </tr>
</table>

Extraction

table>
    <tr>
        <td><strong>Name 1</strong></td>
        <td>Info and ignore <a href="/gohere"/>this</a></td>
        <td><a href="MySpecialAction?list=10000">Edit</a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td><strong>Name 2</strong></td>
        <td>Info and ignore <a href="/gohere"/>this</a></td>
        <td><a href="MySpecialAction?field=&list=10001">Edit</a></td>
    </tr>
<tr>
        <td><strong>Name 2</strong></td>
        <td>Info and ignore <a href="/gohere"/>this</a></td>
        <td><a href="MySpecialAction?field=&list=10002&something=whatever">Edit</a></td>
    </tr>
</table>