Regular Expressions 101

Pro

1st Alternative<code>[\s\S]*?</code>(*SKIP)(*FAIL)

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

Character Class[\s\S]*?

*?matches any number of characters from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

</code>the literal text </code> (case sensitive)

(*SKIP)acts like (*PRUNE), but the next unanchored match attempt starts where (*SKIP) was reached instead of at the next subject character

(*FAIL)forces the current match attempt to fail at this position

2nd Alternative\[.+?\]

\[the literal [ (91₁₀ / 133₈ / 5B₁₆)

.+?any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

\]the literal ] (93₁₀ / 135₈ / 5D₁₆)

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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25 tokens

Regular Expression

<code>[\s\S]*?</code>(*SKIP)(*FAIL)|\[.+?\]

New

[bracket]
<code>[bracket]
blah [bracket] blah
[bracket]</code>
<code> some text [bracket] other text </code>
<code>[bracket]</code>
blah [bracket] blah

Extraction

[bracket]
<code>[bracket]
blah [bracket] blah
[bracket]</code>
<code> some text [bracket] other text </code>
<code>[bracket]</code>
blah [bracket] blah