Regular Expressions 101

li>the literal text li> (case sensitive)

Group 1(.*?)

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

Non-Capturing Group(?:<\/li)

<the literal text < (case sensitive)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

lithe literal text li (case sensitive)

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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Search reference

Regular Expression

li&gt;(.*?)(?:&lt;\/li)

New

***some text*** li&gt; ***data to capture***&lt;/li ***more text***