Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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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

Regular Expression
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/
gm

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$re = '/(?i)<label id="\{[\d\w-]+}">([a-z ]+)<\/label>/m'; $str = '<p> <title>Contact Us</title> </p> <table dropzone="copy"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="label" style="cursor: default;">Full Name</td> <td style= "cursor: default;">[<label id="{0a4a7240-9606-416a-bf7b-ef11a47cca8e}">First name</label>] [<label id="{94263497-683b-46f9-ba0f-69f4c2736598}">Last name</label>]</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="label" style="cursor: d efault;">Telephone</td> <td style="cursor: default;">[<label id="{ce68e02e-e9fd-40ee-9375-ee1b05972e9b}">Phone</label>]</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="label" style="cursor: default;">Email</td> <td style="cursor: default;">[<label id="{411b580e-f7e9-4dd2-a70d-947385360cd0}">Email</label>]</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="label" style="cursor: default;">Message</td> <td style="cursor: default;">[ <label id="{13e2ff23-135c-4c6d-beb4-2960a533cb98}">Your Message</label>]</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="label" style="cursor: default;">Company</td> <td style="cursor: default;">[<label id="{c3f22c3a-8fc1 -48a4-8d6a-fe346024ca2b}">Company</label>]</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> <p> </p>'; $subst = "$1"; $result = preg_replace($re, $subst, $str); echo "The result of the substitution is ".$result;

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