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  • All Tokens
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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]
  • 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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Generated Code

$re = '/^((?!\sid: \'(.*?)\',).)+$/m'; $str = 'result get: [ { __tenant: \'dev_gaus\', partitionKey: \'customization_custContextsByStudent0\', ref: \'CustContext-6faccf25-7cff-4d28-aa01-ef242d43f9eb\', id: \'6950d15e-332d-4dcf-8f60-c887b52b7c74\', timestampOfLastReducedEvent: \'2016-10-17T10:43:22.562Z\', payload: { custContextId: \'6faccf25-7cff-4d28-aa01-ef242d43f9eb\', students: [Object] }, _rid: \'0jBGAOGkewADAAAAAACABA==\', _self: \'dbs/0jBGAA==/colls/0jBGAOGkewA=/docs/0jBGAOGkewADAAAAAACABA==/\', _etag: \'"2900f221-0000-0000-0000-5804ab5d0000"\', _attachments: \'attachments/\', _ts: 1476701006 }, { __tenant: \'dev_gaus\', partitionKey: \'customization_custContextsByStudent0\', ref: \'CustContext-c19a7792-2521-4491-833a-6462cf5fea84\', id: \'f37f54bf-ab58-4e4a-b5d3-5aeff0abdd65\', timestampOfLastReducedEvent: \'2016-10-17T10:46:16.289Z\', payload: { \'55\': [Object] }, _rid: \'0jBGAOGkewAEAAAAAACABA==\', _self: \'dbs/0jBGAA==/colls/0jBGAOGkewA=/docs/0jBGAOGkewAEAAAAAACABA==/\', _etag: \'"2900f321-0000-0000-0000-5804abfa0000"\', _attachments: \'attachments/\', _ts: 1476701163 }, { __tenant: \'dev_gaus\', partitionKey: \'customization_custContextsByStudent0\', ref: \'CustContext-d528c0aa-71c6-4b20-b828-6e8068d77900\', id: \'4358d14c-c001-4d46-bc8b-9d29a6a426b7\', timestampOfLastReducedEvent: \'2016-10-17T10:49:48.122Z\', payload: { \'52\': [Object], \'55\': [Object] }, _rid: \'0jBGAOGkewAIAAAAAACABA==\', _self: \'dbs/0jBGAA==/colls/0jBGAOGkewA=/docs/0jBGAOGkewAIAAAAAACABA==/\', _etag: \'"2900f721-0000-0000-0000-5804acce0000"\', _attachments: \'attachments/\', _ts: 1476701375 } ] '; $subst = ""; $result = preg_replace($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