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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
  • 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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$re = '/Booking Voucher Number: (?<number>\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d)|(Guest Name : (?<name>\w\w.*))|(Check In Date : (?<date>\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}))|(Check Out Date : (?<Outdate>\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}))|(Number of Rooms : (?<RoomNumbers>)\d.*)|(Special Request : (?<SRQST>\w.*))|(paid for Guests: (?<PfG>)\d.*)|(Room Type : (?<RoomType>)\w.*)/m'; $str = 'Booking Voucher Number: 2052892268 Guest Name : Maxie Dibbert Check In Date : 2018-11-09 Check Out Date : 2018-11-10 Number of Rooms : 14 Booking Type : Pay At Hotel Amount To Be Collected : 91.2 (SOD) Special Request : NA Breakfast Included: No Breakfast paid for Guests: 0 Room Type : Single Bed in Female Dormitory '; preg_match_all($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