Regular Expressions 101

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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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gis

Test String

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Generated Code

$re = '/<(?:textarea|select).*?>.*?(\{\{\{variable:(.*?)\}\}\}).*?<\/(?:textarea|select)>|<(?:input).+?(value=.*?)(\{\{\{variable:(.+?)\}\}\})?.*?>|(\{\{\{variable:(.*?)\}\}\})/is'; $str = ' <section id="services"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <p>You are using system version: {{{variable:system_version}}}</p> <p>Your address: {{{variable:contact-email-address}}}</p> <form action="http://k.loc/content/view/welcome" class="default-form" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8"> <input type="hidden" name="csrfkcmstoken" value="94ee71ada809b9a79d1b723c81020c78" /> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12 form-error"></div> </div> <div class="row"><div class="col-sm-12"><fieldset id="personalinfo"><legend>Personal information</legend><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="control-label"> <label for="testinput">Name<span class="form-validation-required"> * </span></label> </div> <div class="hint-text">Enter at least 2 characters and a maximum of 12 characters.</div><input id="testinput" name="testinput" placeholder="Enter your name here." class="input-group width-50" type="text" value="{{{variable:system_name}}} {{{variable:system_login}}}"><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-12"><div class="form-error"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="control-label"> <label for="testpassword">Password</label> </div> <div class="hint-text">Your password must be at least 12 characters long, contain 1 special character, 1 nunber, 1 lower case character and 1 upper case character.</div><input id="testpassword" name="testpassword" placeholder="Enter your password here." class="input-group width-50" type="password"><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-12"><div class="form-error"></div></div></div></div></div></fieldset></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-12"><fieldset id="bioinfo"><legend>Biographical information</legend><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="control-label"> <label for="testtextarea">Biography</label> <span class="hint-text">A minimum of 40 characters and a maximum of 255 is allowed. This hint is displayed inline.</span> </div> <textarea id="testtextarea" name="testtextarea" placeholder="Please enter your biography here." class="input-group-wide width-100" rows="5" cols="80">{{{variable:system_name}}} {{{variable:system_login}}}</textarea><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-12"><div class="form-error"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="control-label"> <label for="testsummernote">Interests</label> <span class="hint-text">A minimum of 40 characters is required. This hint is displayed inline.</span> </div> <textarea id="testsummernote" name="testsummernote" class="wysiwyg-editor" placeholder="Please enter your interests here."><p>{{{variable:system_name}}}<br></p><p>{{{variable:system_login}}}</p><p>{{{variable:activate_url}}}<br></p></textarea></div></div></fieldset></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-12"><button name="testsubmit" id="testsubmit" type="submit" class="btn primary">Submit<i class="zmdi zmdi-arrow-forward"></i></button></div></div> </form> </div> '; 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