The dot will match all remaining characters in the string. The dot matches the >, and the engine continues repeating the dot. Like the plus, the star and the repetition using curly braces are greedy. After that, I will present you with two possible solutions. Let’s take a look inside the regex engine to see in detail how this works and why this causes our regex to fail. That is, it will go back to the plus, make it give up the last iteration, and proceed with the remainder of the regex. Only if that causes the entire regex to fail, will the regex engine backtrack. That is, the plus causes the regex engine to repeat the preceding token as often as possible. You might expect the regex to match and when continuing after that match. They will be surprised when they test it on a string like This is a first test. Most people new to regular expressions will attempt to use.
If it sits between sharp brackets, it is an HTML tag.
You know that the input will be a valid HTML file, so the regular expression does not need to exclude any invalid use of sharp brackets. Suppose you want to use a regex to match an HTML tag. The syntax is \b matches a number between 19. There’s an additional quantifier that allows you to specify how many times a token can be repeated. But this regex may be sufficient if you know the string you are searching through does not contain any such invalid tags. I did not, because this regex would match, which is not a valid HTML tag. The star will cause the second character class to be repeated three times, matching T, M and L with each step. When matching, the first character class will match H. Because we used the star, it’s OK if the second character class matches nothing. The star repeats the second character class. The second character class matches a letter or digit. The first character class matches a letter. matches an HTML tag without any attributes. The plus tells the engine to attempt to match the preceding token once or more. The asterisk or star tells the engine to attempt to match the preceding token zero or more times. It tells the engine to attempt to match the preceding token zero times or once, in effect making it optional. One repetition operator or quantifier was already introduced: the question mark.
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