The use of globle in regular expression.

Question

I used the regular expression (/\<+\/+\s+/gm,"</"). If i remove the g the regular expression don't work. Please let me know technical difference between 'g-global and m-multiple'.

Answer 1

From http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascript.html

• /g enables "global" matching. When using the replace() method, specify this modifier to replace all matches, rather than only the first one.

• /i makes the regex match case insensitive.

• /m enables "multi-line mode". In this mode, the caret and dollar match before and after newlines in the subject string.

Answer 2

See also http://php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php