Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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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

/
/
m

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

$re = '/(\(\'DB_NAME\'\,\s\')([a-z]*)(\'\)\;)/m'; $str = '<?php define(\'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE\', false);// This setting was defined by WordPress Toolkit to prevent WordPress auto-updates. Do not change it to avoid conflicts with the WordPress Toolkit auto-updates feature. /** * The base configuration for WordPress * * The wp-config.php creation script uses this file during the * installation. You don\'t have to use the web site, you can * copy this file to "wp-config.php" and fill in the values. * * This file contains the following configurations: * * * MySQL settings * * Secret keys * * Database table prefix * * ABSPATH * * @link https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php * * @package WordPress */ // ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** // /** The name of the database for WordPress */ define(\'DB_NAME\', \'--------------\'); /** MySQL database username */ define(\'DB_USER\', \'--------------\'); /** MySQL database password */ define(\'DB_PASSWORD\', \'--------------\'); /** MySQL hostname */ define(\'DB_HOST\', \'srv-pleskdb15.ps.kz:--------------\'); /** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */ define(\'DB_CHARSET\', \'utf8\'); /** The Database Collate type. Don\'t change this if in doubt. */ define(\'DB_COLLATE\', \'\'); /**#@+ * Authentication Unique Keys and Salts. * * Change these to different unique phrases! * You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ WordPress.org secret-key service} * You can change these at any point in time to invalidate all existing cookies. This will force all users to have to log in again. * * @since 2.6.0 */ define(\'AUTH_KEY\', \'=======================================================\'); define(\'SECURE_AUTH_KEY\', \'=======================================================\'); define(\'LOGGED_IN_KEY\', \'=======================================================\'); define(\'NONCE_KEY\', \'=======================================================\'); define(\'AUTH_SALT\', \'=======================================================\'); define(\'SECURE_AUTH_SALT\', \'=======================================================\'); define(\'LOGGED_IN_SALT\', \'=======================================================\'); define(\'NONCE_SALT\', \'=======================================================\'); /**#@-*/ /** * WordPress Database Table prefix. * * You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each * a unique prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please! */ $table_prefix = \'q3j5sI_\'; /** * For developers: WordPress debugging mode. * * Change this to true to enable the display of notices during development. * It is strongly recommended that plugin and theme developers use WP_DEBUG * in their development environments. * * For information on other constants that can be used for debugging, * visit the Codex. * * @link https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress */ define(\'WP_DEBUG\', false); /* That\'s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */ /** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */ if ( !defined(\'ABSPATH\') ) define(\'ABSPATH\', dirname(__FILE__) . \'/\'); /** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */ require_once(ABSPATH . \'wp-settings.php\'); define( \'WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE\', true ); define (\'FS_METHOD\', \'direct\'); ?>'; preg_match($re, $str, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE, 0); // Print the entire match result var_dump($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