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  • 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
  • Non-capturing group
    (?:...)
  • Capturing group
    (...)
  • 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

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$re = '/^(CREATE TABLE[^;]*;)/m'; $str = 'DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `admin_analytics_usage_version_log`; /*!40101 SET @saved_cs_client = @@character_set_client */; /*!40101 SET character_set_client = utf8 */; CREATE TABLE `admin_analytics_usage_version_log` ( `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT COMMENT \'Log ID\', `last_viewed_in_version` varchar(50) NOT NULL COMMENT \'Viewer last viewed on product version\', PRIMARY KEY (`id`), UNIQUE KEY `ADMIN_ANALYTICS_USAGE_VERSION_LOG_LAST_VIEWED_IN_VERSION` (`last_viewed_in_version`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=6 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COMMENT=\'Admin Notification Viewer Log Table\'; but not CREATE TABLE `admin_analytics_usage_version_log` ( `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT COMMENT \'Log ID\', `last_viewed_in_version` varchar(50) NOT NULL COMMENT \'Viewer last viewed on product version\', PRIMARY KEY (`id`), UNIQUE KEY `ADMIN_ANALYTICS_USAGE_VERSION_LOG_LAST_VIEWED_IN_VERSION` (`last_viewed_in_version`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=6 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COMMENT=\'Admin Notification Viewer Log Table\'; /*!40101 SET character_set_client = @saved_cs_client */; -- -- Dumping data for table `admin_analytics_usage_version_log` -- LOCK TABLES `admin_analytics_usage_version_log` WRITE; /*!40000 ALTER TABLE `admin_analytics_usage_version_log` DISABLE KEYS */; INSERT INTO `admin_analytics_usage_version_log` VALUES (5,\'2.3.4-p2\'); /*!40000 ALTER TABLE `admin_analytics_usage_version_log` ENABLE KEYS */; UNLOCK TABLES; CREATE TABLE `admin_analytics_usage_version_log` ( `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT COMMENT \'Log ID\', `last_viewed_in_version` varchar(50) NOT NULL COMMENT \'Viewer last viewed on product version\', PRIMARY KEY (`id`), UNIQUE KEY `ADMIN_ANALYTICS_USAGE_VERSION_LOG_LAST_VIEWED_IN_VERSION` (`last_viewed_in_version`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=6 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COMMENT=\'Admin Notification Viewer Log Table\'; '; preg_match_all($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