Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • 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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$re = '/^.*{\s*0\s*,\s*{.*$/m'; $str = ' */ { 0, {"test|jgg|suw|702,305,15,19|688,299,46,35|?|*0$15.Tz7zyw3r07s0z03zUPw7M1v07zkTy3tUS03k0y0Dzzrzw7y4"} }, { 0, {"test|jgg|suw|702,305,15,19|688,299,46,35|?|*1$15.Tz7zyw3r07s0z03zUPw7M1v07zkTy3tUS03k0y0Dzzrzw7y4"} }, { 0, {"test|jgg|suw|702,305,15,19|688,299,46,35|?|*2$15.Tz7zyw3r07s0z03zUPw7M1v07zkTy3tUS03k0y0Dzzrzw7y4"} }, { 1, {"test|jgg|suw|702,305,15,19|688,299,46,35|?|*3$15.Tz7zyw3r07s0z03zUPw7M1v07zkTy3tUS03k0y0Dzzrzw7y4"} }, { 1, {"test|jgg|suw|702,305,15,19|688,299,46,35|?|*4$15.Tz7zyw3r07s0z03zUPw7M1v07zkTy3tUS03k0y0Dzzrzw7y4"} }, { 544, {"test|anx|fve|229,166,18,17|229,158,42,34|?|*155$18.s0zs1Us1Us1UG30o3QY7zw7zsAzs8TsMDswvww0xy0vy0zz0zzUU"} }, { 544, {"test|exi|gpg|161,166,20,22|140,140,52,54|132,135,154,68|*142$20.s00C003U00k00A003U00800000000001000A202s003U00DU00y00Ds03zU0zy0Dzk3zw0zzU8"} }, 522 /*🍁*/'; preg_match_all($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