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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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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]
  • Character class intersection
    [\w&&[^\d]]
  • 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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$re = '/(?=.{10}$)(?=.*[A-Za-z]){2,}(?=.*[0-9]){2,}(^|\s)[A-Za-z0-9]{10}($|\s)/m'; $str = 'AB1234567 09AR30253 0912345JL abc12464 12345678 AABBCCAA23 12345B645 13424db67 12AB32457 123as3456 AB123456 123as3456 -123as3456 kljl 1B5W90R0 1B5W90R0 1B6-KQ0R-0 stackoverflow thisstackoverflow this is stackoverflow this is stackoverflow it this is stackedoverflow 1B6-KQ0R-0 1B6-KQ0R-0 Good morning, 1B Please close accounts Arthur Battersby – 1B6-KQ0R-0 Shirley Earle – 1B5-W90R-0 Thank you, 1B6KQ0R0 1B5W90R0 Brianna Toth Administrative Assistant T: (888) 778-0356 Raymond James Ltd. www.DoreyWealth.com <http://www.doreywealth.com/> Victoria T: 250.405.2429 #1000-1175 Douglas Street (in CIBC Building), Victoria, BC V8W 2E1'; preg_match_all($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