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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • A single character of: a, b or c
    [abc]
  • A single character of: a, b, c or d
    [[ab][cd]]
  • 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]
  • Character class intersection
    [\w&&[^\d]]
  • 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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$re = '/^(?:(?:(jdbc)\:{1})?(?:(\w+):/{2})?(?:([^@\/?!\"\':#\s]+(?::\w+)?)@)?)?(?:([^@\/?!\"\':#\s]+(?::\d+)?)(?=(?:$)|(?:/)))?(?:/([^@?!\"\':#\s]*)(?=(?:$)|(?:\?)))?(?:[?]([^#?!\s]+))?\S*$/m'; $str = 'postgresql:// postgresql://localhost postgresql://localhost:5432 postgresql://localhost/mydb postgresql://user@localhost postgresql://user:secret@localhost postgresql://user:secret@localhost:1533 postgresql://user:secret@localhost:1533/ postgresql://user:secret@localhost:1533/db? postgresql://user::se:::cret@localhost::port postgresql://user::secret@local::host::po::::rt/dd::b:::b postgresql://other@localhost/otherdb?connect_timeout=10&application_name=myapp postgresql://localhost/mydb?user=other&password=secret jdbc:postgresql://localhost jdbc:postgresql://other@localhost/otherdb?connect_timeout=10&application_name=myapp jdbc:postgresql://other@localhost:5432/otherdb?connect_timeout=10&application_name=myapp jdbc:postgresql://other:pass@localhost:5432/otherdb?connect_timeout=10&application_name=myapp jdbc:postgresql://other:pass@localhost:5432/other/db?connect_timeout=10&application_name=myapp jdbc:postgresql://other:pass@localhost:5432/other/db??connect_timeout=10&application_name=myapp jdbc:postgresql://other::pass@localhost::5432/oth:erdb?connect_timeout=10&application_name=myapp ""\'\'":::abc; postgresql://127.0.0.1::5432 127.0.0.1::5432 localhost user@localhost user@localhost:1533 user@localhost:1533/db user@localhost:1533/db? user:secret@localhost user:secret@localhost/db user:secret@localhost/db? user:secret@local:host/otherdb user:secret@local:1533/othe1//db user:secret@localhost/otherdb?connect_timeout=10&application_name=myapp user:secret@localhost/other/db?connect_timeout=10&application_name=myapp user:secret@localhost/other/db??connect_timeout=10&application_name=myapp us""er:se::cret@loca\'\'lhost user:secret@local:1533/otherdb jdbc:postgresql://user:secret@localhost:1533/otherdb jdbc:postgresql://user:secret@@localhost:1533/otherdb jdbc:postgresql://user:secret@localhost:1533/otherdb? jdbc:postgresql://:secret@localhost:1533/otherdb? jdbc:postgresql://user:secret@:1533/otherdb? jdbc:postgresql://user:secret@localhost:1533/@otherdb? jdbc:postgresql://user:secret@localhost/otherdb?connect_timeout=10&application_name=myapp jdbc:postgresql://user:secret@localhost:1533/otherdb?connect_timeout=10&application_name=myapp jd\'\'bc:post""gresql://us..er:sec,,ret@localh++ost/ot+-herdb?connect_timeout=10&application_name=myapp'; $subst = "$1 \n$2 \n$3 \n$4 \n$5 \n---\n"; $result = preg_replace($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