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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]
  • 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

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$re = '/"competition_id":(\d+)/'; $str = '<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"> (function() { var block = new MatchesBlock(\'page_team_1_block_team_matches_summary_7\', \'block_team_matches_summary\', {"page":0,"bookmaker_urls":[],"block_service_id":"team_summary_block_teammatchessummary","team_id":1242,"competition_id":0,"filter":"all","new_design":false}); block.registerForCallbacks(); block.addCallbackObserver(\'page_team_1_block_team_matches_summary_7_1_1\', \'changeCompetition\', {"competition_id":0}); block.addCallbackObserver(\'page_team_1_block_team_matches_summary_7_1_2\', \'changeCompetition\', {"competition_id":13}); block.addCallbackObserver(\'page_team_1_block_team_matches_summary_7_1_3\', \'changeCompetition\', {"competition_id":135}); block.addCallbackObserver(\'page_team_1_block_team_matches_summary_7_1_4\', \'changeCompetition\', {"competition_id":171}); block.addCallbackObserver(\'page_team_1_block_team_matches_summary_7_1_5\', \'changeCompetition\', {"competition_id":1148}); block.addCallbackObserver(\'page_team_1_block_team_matches_summary_7_1_6\', \'changeCompetition\', {"competition_id":732}); block.addCallbackObserver(\'page_team_1_block_team_matches_summary_7_1_7\', \'changeCompetition\', {"competition_id":10}); block.addCallbackObserver(\'page_team_1_block_team_matches_summary_7_2_1\', \'filterMatches\', {"filter":"all"}); block.addCallbackObserver(\'page_team_1_block_team_matches_summary_7_2_2\', \'filterMatches\', {"filter":"home"}); block.addCallbackObserver(\'page_team_1_block_team_matches_summary_7_2_3\', \'filterMatches\', {"filter":"away"}); block.setAttribute(\'colspan_left\', 4); block.setAttribute(\'colspan_right\', 3); block.setAttribute(\'has_previous_page\', true); block.setAttribute(\'has_next_page\', true); TimestampFormatter.format(\'page_team_1_block_team_matches_summary_7\'); })(); </script>'; preg_match_all($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