Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
  • Group Constructs
  • 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

Test String

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Generated Code

$re = '/(?P<method>\w+)\s+(?P<URL>\S+)\s+\S+\s+(?P<port>\d+)\s+\S+\s+(?P<IP>\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)\s+(?P<UserAgent>\S+)\s+(?P<status>\d+)/'; $str = 'GET /user/stell_static/legacy/css/share.css - 443 - 192.188.2.0 - 404 GET / - 443 - 192.168.28.0 - 200 0 0 0 GET /public/about.html - 443 - 192.168.26.7 - 403 POST /data/willer/testsample.php - 443 - 192.168.20.1 Mozilla/4.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+5.1;+en-US;+rv:1.8.1.14) 404 0 2 0 GET /ajax/real/setsample.asp - 443 - 192.168.21.0 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+5.1;+WOW64;+rv:35.0)+Gecko/20980000+Firefox/45.0 200 0 0 31 #apache webserver services #version5.5'; preg_match_all($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