Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
  • Group Constructs
  • Character Classes
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  • 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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gm

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$re = '/<tr>\n\s*<td>\n\s*(\w*)\n\s*(\w*)\n\s*<\/td>\n\s*<td>\n\s*([a-zA-Z0-9 ]*), (\d*)\n\s*(\w*)\n\s*<\/td>\n\s*<td>\n\s*([0-9\/-]*)\n\s*<\/td>\n\s*<td>\n\s*(\w*)\n\s*<\/td>\n\s*<td>\n\s*<a href="mailto:.*">(.*)<\/a>\n\s*<\/td>\n\s*<\/tr>/m'; $str = '<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Mitarbeiterportal</title> <link href="" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script src="" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <body> <div id="page" class="page"> <div id="header"> <div id="logindisplay"> Hallo! [ <a href="/">Ausloggen</a> ] </div> <div id="title"> <h1>Onlineportal</h1> </div> <div id="menucontainer"> <ul id="nav"> <li><a href="/">Startseite</a></li> <li><a href="/">Übersicht</a> <ul> <li><a href="/">Link1</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/">Link2</a></li> <li><a href="#">Persönliches</a> <ul> <li><a href="/">Meine Daten</a></li> <li><a href="/">News</a></li> <li><a href="/">Termine</a></li> <li><a href="/">Mitarbeiterliste</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/">Link3</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="main"> <h2>Liste aktiver Mitarbeiter</h2> <center> <table id="usertable" class="tablenowrap"> <tr> <th> Name </th> <th> Adresse </th> <th> Telefon1 </th> <th> Telefon2 </th> <th> Email </th> </tr> <tr> <td> Mustermann Anna </td> <td> Mustergasse 10, 1000 Musterort </td> <td> 012/34-567890 </td> <td> </td> <td> <a href="mailto:mustermann.anna@example.org">mustermann.anna@example.org</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Mustermann Ernst </td> <td> Musterweg 15, 1010 Musterstadt </td> <td> 09876543210 </td> <td> </td> <td> <a href="mailto:mustermann.ernst@example.org">mustermann.ernst@example.org</a> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <div id="footer"> Version 1.0.0 (c) by xy </div> </body> </html>'; preg_match_all($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