regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

Explanation

Pro

1st Alternative(?<=the date is ).*?(?=\s*the place is)

Positive Lookbehind(?<=the date is )

the date is the literal text the date is (case sensitive)

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

Positive Lookahead(?=\s*the place is)

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

the place isthe literal text the place is (case sensitive)

2nd Alternative(?<=the place is ).*?(?=\s*the people are)

Positive Lookbehind(?<=the place is )

the place is the literal text the place is (case sensitive)

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

Positive Lookahead(?=\s*the people are)

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

the people arethe literal text the people are (case sensitive)

3rd Alternative(?<=the people are ).*

Positive Lookbehind(?<=the people are )

the people are the literal text the people are (case sensitive)

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

Global pattern flags

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

Quick Reference

25 tokens

Regular Expression

(?<=the date is ).*?(?=\s*the place is)|(?<=the place is ).*?(?=\s*the people are)|(?<=the people are ).*

New

<a href=\"http://vnexpress.net/tin-tuc/the-gioi/putin-noi-se-tiep-tuc-hop-tac-voi-phuong-tay-3236453.html\"><img width=130 height=100 src=\"http://s.f29.img.vnecdn.net/2015/06/19/pu2-2249-1434719288_180x108.jpg\" ></a></br>Tổng thống Nga Vladimir Putin tự tin rằng hợp tác của Moscow với Phương Tây sẽ vẫn tiếp tục, bất chấp việc Liên minh châu Âu (EU) công bố sẽ kéo dài các lệnh trừng phạt thêm 6 tháng.

Extraction

<a href=\"http://vnexpress.net/tin-tuc/the-gioi/putin-noi-se-tiep-tuc-hop-tac-voi-phuong-tay-3236453.html\"><img width=130 height=100 src=\"http://s.f29.img.vnecdn.net/2015/06/19/pu2-2249-1434719288_180x108.jpg\" ></a></br>Tổng thống Nga Vladimir Putin tự tin rằng hợp tác của Moscow với Phương Tây sẽ vẫn tiếp tục, bất chấp việc Liên minh châu Âu (EU) công bố sẽ kéo dài các lệnh trừng phạt thêm 6 tháng.