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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • 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

Regular Expression
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/
/
g

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$re = '/.*@company-gherkin:.*/'; $str = ' /** * ######################### * Gherkin Glue Code * ######################## */ @And(/^.*click next.*$/) def clickNext() { def selectNext = new TestObject(\'selectNext\') selectNext.addProperty("xpath", ConditionType.EQUALS, "//button[contains( text(), \'next\')]", true) WebUI.click(selectNext) } /** * @company-gherkin: Step: go to the list. Description: Navigates to the list. */ @Given(/^.*go to the list.*$/) def goToList() { // open the browser openWebBrowser() WebUI.navigateToUrl(GlobalVariable.G_SiteURL) } /** * @company-gherkin: Step: select (.*) the item. Description: Select something to save, more than likely the usual. \'(.*)\' represents any value from the drop down list. */ @And(/^.*select (.*) the item.*$/) def selectFixture(String fixture) { if(!fixture || fixture == " ") { fixture = "theItem" } fixture = fixture.trim() // println "fixture is:"+fixture // Select iotaa from the drop down list WebUI.selectOptionByValue(findTestObject(\'path/to/item\'), fixture, false) } '; 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