Regular Expressions 101

Group 1([<]textarea.*[<\/textarea][>])

Character Class[<]

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

textareathe literal text textarea (case sensitive)

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

Character Class[<\/textarea]

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

tthe literal t (116₁₀ / 164₈ / 74₁₆) (case sensitive)

ethe literal e (101₁₀ / 145₈ / 65₁₆) (case sensitive)

xthe literal x (120₁₀ / 170₈ / 78₁₆) (case sensitive)

athe literal a (97₁₀ / 141₈ / 61₁₆) (case sensitive)

rthe literal r (114₁₀ / 162₈ / 72₁₆) (case sensitive)

Character Class[>]

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

([<]textarea.*[<\/textarea][>])

New

<p>
	<textarea class="ckeditor-basic" cols="100" name="textAreaName" required="required" rows="5">
		<p>5051950</p>
	</textarea>
</p>

<p><textarea class="ckeditor-basic" cols="100" name="textAreaName" required="required" rows="5"></textarea></p>

<p><textarea class="ckeditor-basic" cols="100" name="textAreaName" required="required" rows="5"></textarea></p>

Regular Expression

Extraction