Regular Expressions 101

Non-Capturing Group(?:<)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Positive Lookbehind(?<=<)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Group 1(\/?\w*)

\/?optionally matches the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\w*any word character, repeated any number of times

Positive Lookahead(?=.*(?<=<\/html))

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

Positive Lookbehind(?<=<\/html)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

htmlthe literal text html (case sensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?:>)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

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

(?:<)(?<=<)(\/?\w*)(?=.*(?<=<\/html))(?:>)

New

"<Message text="<html>Welcome User, <br> Happy to have you. <br>.</html>"

"<Message text="&lt;html&gt;Welcome User, &lt;br&gt; Happy to have you. &lt;br&gt;.&lt;/html&gt;">

"<Message text="<html>Welcome User, <br> Happy to have you. </html>" Multi="false"> <Meta source="system" dest="any"></Meta></Message>"

"<Message text="&lt;html&gt;Welcome User, &lt;br&gt; Happy to have you. &lt;/html&gt;" Multi="false"> <Meta source="system" dest="any"></Meta></Message>"

Regular Expression

Extraction