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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

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$re = '/(\[[^\][]*]\()https?:\/\/docs\.google\.com\/document\/d\/([^\s\\\\\/)]+)[^\s)]*\)/m'; $str = '# Title Text text text. Text 1 text 1 text 1, abc. More text Bullet points - [abc] - [bla] - [cba] [Text](https://docs.google.com/document/d/unique-doc-id-here/edit) ## Title 2 More text: - A - B - C - D Text text text text [url1](https://docs.google.com/document/d/2x2my-DRqfSidOsdve4m9bF_eEOJ7RqIWP7tk7PM4qEr) text. **BOLD.** ## Title Text2 text1 text3 text [url2](https://docs.google.com/document/d/4x2mrhsqfGSidOsdve4m9bb_wEOJ7RqsWP7tk7PMPqEb/edit#bookmark=id.mbnek2bdkj8c) text. More text here [bla](https://docs.google.com/document/d/6an7_b4Mb0OdxNZdfD3KedfvFtdf2OeGzG40ztfDhi5o9uU/edit) '; $subst = "$1[REPLACEMENT]$3"; $result = preg_replace($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