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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

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$re = '/(-x ("|\'))(\w+)\2(?!.*(?1)\3["|\'])/ms'; $str = 'testuser /get_results.sh -q -x \'igp_srm_m\' -s \'yesterday\' -e \'yesterday\' -m \'2048\' -b >>\'/var/log/process/srm-console.log\' 2>&1 00 10 * * 2-6 testuser /get_results.sh -q -x \'igp_srm_m\' -s \'yesterday\' -e \'yesterday\' -m \'2048\' -w \'720\' >>\'/var/log/process/srm-console.log\' 2>&1 00 08 * * 1-5 testuser /get_results.sh -q -x "igp_srm_m" -s "today" -e "today" -m "90000" -b -z partA >>"/var/log/process/france-partA-console.log" 2>&1 00 12 * * 2-6 testuser /get_results.sh -q -x "igp_france" -s "yesterday" -e "yesterday" -m "90000" -w "900" -z partA >>"/var/log/process/france-partA-console.log" 2>&1 00 08 * * 1-5 testuser /get_results.sh -q -x "igp_france" -s "today" -e "today" -m "90000" -b -z partB >>"/var/log/process/france-partB-console.log" 2>&1 00 12 * * 2-6 testuser /get_results.sh -q -x "igp_france" -s "yesterday" -e "yesterday" -m "90000" -w "900" -z partB >>"/var/log/process/france-partB-console.log" 2>&1 00 12 * * 2-6 testuser JAVA_OPTS=\'-server -Xmx512m\' /merge.sh "yesterday" "igp_france" "partA,partB" >>"/var/log/process/france-console.log" 2>&1 00 08 * * 1-5 testuser /get_results.sh -q -x "igpswitz_france" -s "today" -e "today" -m "15000" -b >>\'/var/log/process/igpswitz_france-console.log\' 2>&1 00 12 * * 2-6 testuser /get_results.sh -q -x "igpswitz_france" -s "yesterday" -e "yesterday" -m "15000" -Dapc.maxalerts=8000 -w "900" >>\'/var/log/process/igpswitz_france-console.log\' 2>&1 30 07 * * 2-6 testuser /get_results.sh -q -x "igp_franced" -s \'yesterday\' -e \'yesterday\' -m "105000" -b >>"/var/log/process/franced-console.log" 2>&1 15 12 * * 2-6 testuser /get_results.sh -q -x "igp_franced" -s \'yesterday\' -e \'yesterday\' -m "105000" -w "960" >>"/var/log/process/franced-console.log" 2>&1 '; preg_match_all($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