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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
  • Group Constructs
  • Character Classes
  • Flags/Modifiers
  • Substitution
  • A single character of: a, b or c
    [abc]
  • A character except: a, b or c
    [^abc]
  • A character in the range: a-z
    [a-z]
  • A character not in the range: a-z
    [^a-z]
  • A character in the range: a-z or A-Z
    [a-zA-Z]
  • Any single character
    .
  • Alternate - match either a or b
    a|b
  • Any whitespace character
    \s
  • Any non-whitespace character
    \S
  • Any digit
    \d
  • Any non-digit
    \D
  • Any word character
    \w
  • Any non-word character
    \W
  • Match everything enclosed
    (?:...)
  • Capture everything enclosed
    (...)
  • Zero or one of a
    a?
  • Zero or more of a
    a*
  • One or more of a
    a+
  • Exactly 3 of a
    a{3}
  • 3 or more of a
    a{3,}
  • Between 3 and 6 of a
    a{3,6}
  • Start of string
    ^
  • End of string
    $
  • A word boundary
    \b
  • Non-word boundary
    \B

Regular Expression
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$re = '/^(((https|http):\/\/)?([a-z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{1,256}\.)+[a-z0-9:()]{1,20}+(\/[a-z0-9_():@.]+)*(\/)?((\?|#).*)?|(website_not_available))/m'; $str = 'http://foo.com/blah_blah http://foo.com/blah_blah/ http://foo.com/blah_blah_(wikipedia) http://foo.com/blah_blah_(wikipedia)_(again) http://www.example.com/wpstyle/?p=364 https://www.example.com/foo/?bar=baz&inga=42&quux http://✪df.ws/123 xzcz xzcxzvcxzvxczc suva www.https//:fgdv.com test.https://www.xflowpay.com http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89l%C3%A9phant www.exldfcsdf/dcsdfv http://userid:password@example.com:8080 http://userid:password@example.com:8080/ http://userid@example.com http://userid@example.com/ http://userid@example.com:8080 http://userid@example.com:8080/ http://userid:password@example.com http://userid:password@example.com/ http://142.42.1.1/ http://142.42.1.1:8080/ http://➡.ws/䨹 http://www.mysite.com/myresumé.html http://foo.com/blah_(wikipedia)#cite-1 http://foo.com/blah_(wikipedia)_blah#cite-1 http://code.google.com/events/#&product=browser http://foo.com/unicode_(✪)_in_parens http://foo.com/(something)?after=parens http://code.google.com/events/#&product=browser ftp://foo.bar/baz http://j.mp http://foo.bar/?q=Test%20URL-encoded%20stuff http://-.~_!$&\'()*+,;=:%40:80%2f::::::@example.com http://1337.net http://a.b-c.de http://223.255.255.254 https://foo_bar.example.com/ https://regex101.com/ http:// http://. http://../ http://## ///a http:///a foo.com rdar://1234 http:// shouldfail.com h://test http://foo.bar/foo(bar)baz quux http://10.1.1.255 http://-a.b.co http://a.b--c.de/ ftps://foo.bar/ http://3628126748 http://.www.foo.bar./ http://www.foo.bar./ http://.www.foo.bar/ http://10.1.1.254 fghfg'; preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0); // Print the entire match result var_dump($matches);

Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for PHP, please visit: http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php