Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Group 1(<title>((?:(?!<\/title>).)*)<\/title>\s*<content>)

<title>the literal text <title> (case sensitive)

Group 2((?:(?!<\/title>).)*)

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?!<\/title>).)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Negative Lookahead(?!<\/title>)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

title>the literal text title> (case sensitive)

.any character (except for line terminators)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

title>the literal text title> (case sensitive)

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

<content>the literal text <content> (case sensitive)

Group 3((?:(?!<\/content>).)*)

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?!<\/content>).)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Negative Lookahead(?!<\/content>)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

content>the literal text content> (case sensitive)

.any character (except for line terminators)

Global pattern flags

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

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26 tokens

Regular Expression

(<title>((?:(?!<\/title>).)*)<\/title>\s*<content>)((?:(?!<\/content>).)*)

New

<xml>
 <item>
  <title>Title 1</title>
  <content>Text 1</content>
 </item>
 <item>
  <title>Title 2</title>
  <content>Text 2</content>
 </item>
</xml>

Extraction

<xml>
 <item>
  <title>Title 1</title>
  <content>Text 1</content>
 </item>
 <item>
  <title>Title 2</title>
  <content>Text 2</content>
 </item>
</xml>