regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

\Wany non-word character

\n?optionally matches a line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

Group 1(((1|2)[0-9]|3[0-1]|0?[1-9])\/(0?[1-9]|1[0-2])\/((19|20)?[0-9]{2})|((1|2)[0-9]|3[0-1]|0?[1-9])\-(0?[1-9]|1[0-2])\-((19|20)?[0-9]{2})|((19|20)?[0-9]{2})\/((1|2)[0-9]|3[0-1]|0?[1-9])\/(0?[1-9]|1[0-2])|((19|20)?[0-9]{2})\-((1|2)[0-9]|3[0-1]|0?[1-9])\-(0?[1-9]|1[0-2]))

1st Alternative((1|2)[0-9]|3[0-1]|0?[1-9])\/(0?[1-9]|1[0-2])\/((19|20)?[0-9]{2})

Group 2((1|2)[0-9]|3[0-1]|0?[1-9])

1st Alternative(1|2)[0-9]

Group 3(1|2)

1st Alternative1

1the literal 1 (49₁₀ / 61₈ / 31₁₆)

2nd Alternative2

2the literal 2 (50₁₀ / 62₈ / 32₁₆)

Character Class[0-9]

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

2nd Alternative3[0-1]

3the literal 3 (51₁₀ / 63₈ / 33₁₆)

Character Class[0-1]

0-1one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 1 (49₁₀)

3rd Alternative0?[1-9]

0?optionally matches the literal 0 (48₁₀ / 60₈ / 30₁₆)

Character Class[1-9]

1-9one character from 1 (49₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Group 4(0?[1-9]|1[0-2])

1st Alternative0?[1-9]

0?optionally matches the literal 0 (48₁₀ / 60₈ / 30₁₆)

Character Class[1-9]

1-9one character from 1 (49₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

2nd Alternative1[0-2]

1the literal 1 (49₁₀ / 61₈ / 31₁₆)

Character Class[0-2]

0-2one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 2 (50₁₀)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Group 5((19|20)?[0-9]{2})

Group 6(19|20)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

1st Alternative19

19the literal text 19

2nd Alternative20

20the literal text 20

Character Class[0-9]{2}

{2}matches exactly 2 characters from the set below:

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

2nd Alternative((1|2)[0-9]|3[0-1]|0?[1-9])\-(0?[1-9]|1[0-2])\-((19|20)?[0-9]{2})

Group 7((1|2)[0-9]|3[0-1]|0?[1-9])

1st Alternative(1|2)[0-9]

Group 8(1|2)

Character Class[0-9]

2nd Alternative3[0-1]

3rd Alternative0?[1-9]

\-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

Group 9(0?[1-9]|1[0-2])

\-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

Group 10((19|20)?[0-9]{2})

3rd Alternative((19|20)?[0-9]{2})\/((1|2)[0-9]|3[0-1]|0?[1-9])\/(0?[1-9]|1[0-2])

4th Alternative((19|20)?[0-9]{2})\-((1|2)[0-9]|3[0-1]|0?[1-9])\-(0?[1-9]|1[0-2])

\Wany non-word character

\n?optionally matches a line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

Search reference

Regular Expression

\W\n?(((1|2)[0-9]|3[0-1]|0?[1-9])\/(0?[1-9]|1[0-2])\/((19|20)?[0-9]{2})|((1|2)[0-9]|3[0-1]|0?[1-9])\-(0?[1-9]|1[0-2])\-((19|20)?[0-9]{2})|((19|20)?[0-9]{2})\/((1|2)[0-9]|3[0-1]|0?[1-9])\/(0?[1-9]|1[0-2])|((19|20)?[0-9]{2})\-((1|2)[0-9]|3[0-1]|0?[1-9])\-(0?[1-9]|1[0-2]))\W\n?

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