Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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  • 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

/
/
gm

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

$re = '/(?i)(?<scheme>http|https|ftp|sftp|sip|sips|file):\/\/(?:(?<username>[^`!@#$^&*()+=,:;\'"{}\|\[\]\s\/\\\\]+)(?::(?<password>[^`!@#$^&*()+=,:;\'"{}\|\[\]\s\/\\\\]+))?@)?(?:(?<ipv4>((?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1?\d\d?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1?\d\d?)))|\[(?<ipv6>(?i)(?:[\da-f]{0,4}:){1,7}(?:(?<ipv4_in_ipv6>(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1?\d\d?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1?\d\d?))|[\da-f]{0,4}))\]|(?:(?<sub_domain>[^\s~`!@#$%^&*()_+=,.?:;\'"{}\|\[\]\/\\\\]+\.)*(?<domain>[^\s~`!@#$%^&*()_+=,.?:;\'"{}\|\[\]\/\\\\]+)(?<tld>\.[^\s~`!@#$%^&*()\-_+=,.?:;\'"{}\|\[\]\/\\\\0-9]{2,})))+(?<port>:\d+)?(?:\/(?<path>\/?[^\s`@#$^&=.?"{}\\\\]+\/)*(?<file>[^\s`@#$^&=?"{}\/\\\\]+)?(?<query>\?[^\s`#$^"{}\\\\]+)*(?<fragment>#[^\s`$^&=?"{}\/\\\\]+)?)?/m'; $str = '# Quick Example (full) https://uSer:pass@sub1.sub-2.EXamPle.uk.com:80/PATH1/paTh2?qUeRy=1&q2=2#ancHor https://úser@suß.öctúvt.tìd/file-path/FILE_%82%8A.php?query=value&query2=value2#somethig HTTP://دامنه.ایران/زیردامنه/زیردامنه۲/فایل.پسوند؟درخواست=جواب http://blog.sergeys.us/beer?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+SergeySus+(Sergey+Sus+Photography+%C2%BB+Blog)&utm_content=Google+Reader http://test.site/wp-admin/post.php?t=1347548645469?t=1347548651124?t=1347548656685?t=1347548662469?t=1347548672300?t=1347548681615?#sdfsdf http://example.com/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=1&load[]=swfobject,jquery,utils&ver=3.5 http://video.google.co.uk:80/videoplay?docid=-7246927612831078230&hl=en#hello https://example.com/path/resource.txt#fragment # Basic www.example.com http://example.com https://example.com https://example.ac.eu https://example.gov.ir ftp://example.com sftp://example.com # With Path www.example.com/path1/path2/ http://example.com/path1/path2/ https://example.com/path1/path2 # With Path & File www.example.com/path1/path2/file.pdf http://example.com/path1/path2/file.c https://example.com/path1/path2/file.txt # With Path & Query http://www.example.com/?query=some-path/path1/path2/ http://example.com/path1/path2/?query=something https://example.com/path1/path2?query=something # With Subdomain sub1.sub2.example.com www.example.com http://www.example.com ftp://sub1.example.com # With Port www.example.com:80 http://example.com:8080 ftp://example.com:21 ftp://sub1.example.com:21 http://example.com:8080/path1/path2/ http://example.com:80/path1/path2/file.c http://example.com:443/path1/path2/?query=something # With Username user@example.com http://user@www.example.com ftp://user@example.com ftp://user@sub1.example.com:21 http://user@example.com:8080/path1/path2/ http://user@example.com/path1/path2/file.c http://user@example.com/path1/path2/?query=something # Some Crazy Examples http://ヒキワリ.ナットウ.ニホン sip://ßàÁâãóôþüúðæåïçèõöÿýòäœêëìíøù.îûñé HTTP://دامنه.ایران/زیردامنه/زیردامنه۲/فایل.پسوند؟درخواست=جواب http://example.com/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=1&load[]=swfobject,jquery,utils&ver=3.5 https://úser@sub1.suß2.sub3.öctúvt.tìd.tìd/V3/file-path/P----29BSx_A_%82%8A_D_M1n_a.php?query=value#somethig http://www.go.com.au/ersdfs?dfd=dfgd@s=1 https://uSer@EXamPle.uk.com:80/?qyery?qUeRy=1&q2=2#ancHor http://example.com/%E5%BC%95%E3%81%8D%E5%89%B2%E3%82%8A.html hTTp://eXamPLE.CoM https://belgië.be https://belgië.be.gov http://user@[2001:db8::1]/ https://user@111.222.33.44:49171/Cda-cgi/clientcgi?action=start http://[2001:db8::1]:80 a2d.dd4d.d5d.www.go.com.au a.b.c.d.e.go.com.co.uk go.com.uk go.go.com 1go-co.com 1-2-3-4--5-go.com www.go.com.au # These Should not be Seen as Domain example.c example..com 123.b go.12 1.2.3.4 ff:ff:ff:ff C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge\\Application\\msedge.exe hTTps://111.222.533.44:49171/cda-cgi/clientcgi?action=start # These Should be Seen Partially //example.com.c example.com.c http://example.com.com. # It Should Find URLs in a Text too create Share Links to send your expressions to co-workers or link to them on Twitter or your blog [ex. http://RegExr.com?2rjl655] Built by gskinner.com with Flex 3 [adobe.com/go/flex] and Spelling Plus Library for text highlighting[gskinner.com/products/spl]. # Resources - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifie - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_URI_schemes - - https://zencoder.support.brightcove.com/general-information/special-characters-usernames-and-passwords.html - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/certain-special-characters-are-not-allowed-in-the-url-entered-into-the-address-bar-of-internet-explorer-a8e2a966-19d6-27af-06cc-e720f25e8b02 - https://perishablepress.com/stop-using-unsafe-characters-in-urls/ - https://help.dragonmetrics.com/en/articles/213986-invalid-characters-in-url'; 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