Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(<a[^>]*>.*?[a-z].*?<\/a>)

<athe literal text <a (case insensitive)

Negated Character Class[^>]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

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

Character Class[a-z]

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case insensitive)

.*?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

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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Regular Expression

(<a[^>]*>.*?[a-z].*?<\/a>)

<a href="test">test</a>
<a href="test">абвгд</a>
<a href="test">test абвг</a>