Regular Expressions 101

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Regular Expression
PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)

Description

For every occurrence of the char #, match the previous character and save it in a group (backreference).

Example: for the text "a#bc# -#", set backreferences with a, c and -.

You are not allowed to consume the hash character.

Submitted by anonymous - a month ago