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  • All Tokens
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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
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Test String

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Generated Code

$re = '/[^_]+(?=\.html)/m'; $str = '\'"IIIIIIIIIIIIiIIIIIITIIiIIIIIfiI° W‘i’ INVOICE TO KN SALES INVOICE BROSE SPARTANBURG , INC. 1171 HOWELL ROAD KN TRACKING NUMBER 1036 303 978 STE.300 KN ACCOUNTING NO. 1036303978—2160 DUNCAN SC 29334 ACCOUNT NUMBER 8416043 UNITED STATES INVOICE NO. / DATE GSPN790430 02/01/2021 DUE DATE 03/03/2021 CONSIGNEE SHIPPER BROSE SPARTANBURG , INC. KUEHNE + NAGEL (AG & CO.) KG 1171 HOWELL ROAD FS STE.300 WILHELM-KAISEN-BRUECKE 1 DUNCAN SC 29334 28195 BREMEN UNITED STATES GERMANY __ VESSEL NAME : AL BAHIA VOYAGE NUMBER : 012W PL. OF RECEIPT : KRONACH MOVEMENT TYPE : CFS/CY P. OF LOADING : HAMBURG ETD/ATD : 12/30/2020 P. OF DISCHARGE : CHARLESTON, SC ETA/ATA : 01/18/2021 PL. OF DELIVERY : DUNCAN DANGEROUS GOODS : NO TERMS OF TRADE : CFR DUNCAN INSURAN. STATUS : NOT ARRANGED BY KN MARKS & NOS QTY TYPE DESCRIPTION OF GOODS WGHT VOL 1 40\' HC AS PER AHTWEHED 10749.00 56.100 CODE CHARGE NAME USD 156 PRECARRIAGE 880.60 300 EXPORT CUSTOMS CLEARANCE 41.65 340 VGM FEE 15.00 400 THC - ORIGIN 357.00 550 SEAFREIGHT 1,561.00 581 AMS/ACI SECURITY FEE 45.00 570 BUC - BUNKER CHARGE 347.68 600 THC - DESTINATION 80.00 406 CONTAINER STUFFING EXPORT 426.16 SUBTOTAL USD 3,754.09 INVOICE TOTAL USD 3,754.09 g PAYABLE BE CTD NUMBER: HLCUEUR2011DRZW7 fig AMS NUMBER: BANQBRE4631801 «\'2 fig THE SHIPMENT IS EMITTING 2020.00 KGM KGS OF CO2 FROM KRONACH TO DUNCAN, SC. Egg THE VALUE IS ESTIMATED BASED ON CLEAN CARGO AND EN 16258 METHODOLOGIES. 0X0; 2.5011 \'13: 933 §§§ IEEE\'SERF\'IEAPDEWCS DR SUITE #EIé-11((886é1)8g79é-112§216 RemmmEIIfionguiIIyoaBQIeéa\'BT Kuehne + Na el Inc §§§ GREENV\'LLE: SC 29507 .. maggppgéflfiectfiggflss ABA-021000089 SWIFT: cmusaa DEBRA (gRREfi— 32% £55 KMSTDWSUS 00034887002021-02-01T12:43250.596052008AUSNIULTT'; preg_match_all($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