<lithe literal text <li (case sensitive) .*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times
Negative Lookahead(?!<br) <brthe literal text <br (case sensitive) .*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times
\/the literal / (4710 / 578 / 2F16)
li>the literal text li> (case sensitive) 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