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

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$re = '/<outcomeDeclaration(.*?)\/>/'; $str = '<assessmentItem xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsqti_v2p1" xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsqti_v2p1 http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/qti/qtiv2p1/imsqti_v2p1.xsd" identifier="IT0000300" title="IT0000300" label="Item Label" adaptive="false" timeDependent="false" toolName="TAO" toolVersion="3.1.0-sprint23"> <responseDeclaration identifier="_64B7CBD9-8ED4-EC27-D190-BD0751A38A95" cardinality="single" baseType="string"/> <outcomeDeclaration identifier="SCORE" cardinality="single" baseType="float"> <defaultValue> <value>0</value> </defaultValue> </outcomeDeclaration> <outcomeDeclaration identifier="SCORE" cardinality="single" baseType="float"/> <stylesheet href="style/custom/tao-user-styles.css" type="text/css" media="all" title=""/> <itemBody> <div class="grid-row"> <div class="col-12"><prompt> <p>300</p> </prompt> <extendedTextInteraction responseIdentifier="_64B7CBD9-8ED4-EC27-D190-BD0751A38A95" base="10" minStrings="0" format="plain" class=""> </extendedTextInteraction> </div> </div> </itemBody>'; $subst = "<outcomeDeclaration$1>\n\t<defaultValue>\n\t\t<value>0</value>\n\t</defaultValue>\n</outcomeDeclaration>"; $result = preg_replace($re, $subst, $str); echo "The result of the substitution is ".$result;

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