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
No Match

/
/
g

Test String

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Generated Code

$re = '/\w+.jpg/'; $str = '[{\\"url\\":\\"https:\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/data\\\\/menus\\\\/799\\\\/799\\\\/dd2d49c78b1fe3a9cea5761d90132ff1.jpg\\",\\"href\\":\\"https:\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/data\\\\/menus\\\\/799\\\\/799\\\\/dd2d49c78b1fe3a9cea5761d90132ff1.jpg\\",\\"filename\\":\\"dd2d49c78b1fe3a9cea5761d90132ff1.jpg\\",\\"url_master\\":\\"menus_original\\\\/799\\\\/799\\\\/dd2d49c78b1fe3a9cea5761d90132ff1.jpg\\",\\"path_master\\":\\"\\\\/home\\\\/foodie\\\\/zomato_data\\\\/menus_original\\\\/799\\\\/799\\\\/dd2d49c78b1fe3a9cea5761d90132ff1.jpg\\",\\"data_center\\":\\"\\",\\"menu_type\\":\\"FOOD\\",\\"title\\":\\"FOOD\\",\\"menu_type_class\\":\\"FOOD\\",\\"real_menu_type\\":\\"FOOD\\",\\"is_salt_special_menu\\":0,\\"start_date\\":\\"\\",\\"consumer_upload\\":0,\\"start_date_formatted\\":\\"\\",\\"end_date\\":\\"\\",\\"end_date_formatted\\":\\"\\",\\"id\\":131698200},{\\"url\\":\\"https:\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/data\\\\/menus\\\\/799\\\\/799\\\\/f9f923c43b6b2d2a87ad8ce22b9995da.jpg\\",\\"href\\":\\"https:\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/data\\\\/menus\\\\/799\\\\/799\\\\/f9f923c43b6b2d2a87ad8ce22b9995da.jpg\\",\\"filename\\":\\"f9f923c43b6b2d2a87ad8ce22b9995da.jpg\\",\\"url_master\\":\\"menus_original\\\\/799\\\\/799\\\\/f9f923c43b6b2d2a87ad8ce22b9995da.jpg\\",\\"path_master\\":\\"\\\\/home\\\\/foodie\\\\/zomato_data\\\\/menus_original\\\\/799\\\\/799\\\\/f9f923c43b6b2d2a87ad8ce22b9995da.jpg\\",\\"data_center\\":\\"\\",\\"menu_type\\":\\"FOOD\\",\\"title\\":\\"FOOD\\",\\"menu_type_class\\":\\"FOOD\\",\\"real_menu_type\\":\\"FOOD\\",\\"is_salt_special_menu\\":0,\\"start_date\\":\\"\\",\\"consumer_upload\\":0,\\"start_date_formatted\\":\\"\\",\\"end_date\\":\\"\\",\\"end_date_formatted\\":\\"\\",\\"id\\":131698203},{\\"url\\":\\"https:\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/data\\\\/menus\\\\/799\\\\/799\\\\/ea3117de65882f14723480841940b5b1.jpg\\",\\"href\\":\\"https:\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/data\\\\/menus\\\\/799\\\\/799\\\\/ea3117de65882f14723480841940b5b1.jpg\\",\\"filename\\":\\"ea3117de65882f14723480841940b5b1.jpg\\",\\"url_master\\":\\"menus_original\\\\/799\\\\/799\\\\/ea3117de65882f14723480841940b5b1.jpg\\",\\"path_master\\":\\"\\\\/home\\\\/foodie\\\\/zomato_data\\\\/menus_original\\\\/799\\\\/799\\\\/ea3117de65882f14723480841940b5b1.jpg\\",\\"data_center\\":\\"\\",\\"menu_type\\":\\"FOOD\\",\\"title\\":\\"FOOD\\",\\"menu_type_class\\":\\"FOOD\\",\\"real_menu_type\\":\\"FOOD\\",\\"is_salt_special_menu\\":0,\\"start_date\\":\\"\\",\\"consumer_upload\\":0,\\"start_date_formatted\\":\\"\\",\\"end_date\\":\\"\\",\\"end_date_formatted\\":\\"\\",\\"id\\":131698204}] '; 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