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

/
/
ugms

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

$re = '/(*napla:.{1,300}$\R?(.*\z))(?>\N*\R?){0,5}(?=\1)/ums'; $str = 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. In sed lacus tempus, consequat turpis dapibus, gravida sapien. Praesent venenatis venenatis dui sed mattis. Phasellus id ultrices lorem. Donec volutpat efficitur ullamcorper. Cras a vehicula tortor. ___ Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus. Etiam quis sapien eget mi fringilla cursus vitae a velit. Praesent non mi nulla. Morbi imperdiet risus felis, at fermentum diam ultricies et. Mauris leo sem, efficitur a sollicitudin ac, dapibus ut orci. ___ Sed a venenatis augue. Eget placerat nunc. Nunc a fringilla ex. Vestibulum accumsan ullamcorper purus id consectetur. Duis quis velit mauris. Sed interdum magna ac purus aliquam, at interdum erat finibus. ___ Aenean ut nisl dignissim, lobortis risus ut, fringilla libero. Fusce at eros a mauris tristique laoreet sit amet at velit. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Praesent ac condimentum velit. Nunc condimentum vulputate mauris et tincidunt. ___ Nullam consectetur tincidunt ex, in placerat ligula molestie et. Praesent lacus justo, scelerisque ac iaculis tristique, malesuada quis nisl. Sed mattis pellentesque elit. Nulla facilisis tellus sed eros efficitur pellentesque venenatis vitae dui. ___'; preg_match_all($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