Regular Expressions 101

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Group 1(textarea)

textareathe literal text textarea (case sensitive)

Group 2([^>]+)

Negated Character Class[^>]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Group 3(.*?)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

</the literal text </

\1the text saved by group 1

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

<(textarea)([^>]+)>(.*?)</\1>

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