Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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  • Character Classes
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  • 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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gm

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$re = '/([^&]+)=([^&]+)/m'; $str = 'https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=%E5%8E%89%E5%AE%B3%E4%BA%86%EF%BC%8C%E7%89%9B%E5%8F%89666 &rsv_spt=1&rsv_iqid=0xc3aa1c4b000475f0&issp=1&f=8&rsv_bp=0&rsv_idx=2&ie=utf-8&tn=baiduhome_pg&rsv_enter=1&rsv_sug3=38&rsv_sug1=5&rsv_sug7=100&rsv_sug2=0 &inputT=464145&rsv_sug4=464269 &token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJuaW5naGFvLm5ldCIsImV4cCI6IjE0Mzg5NTU0NDUiLCJuYW1lIjoid2FuZ2hhbyIsImFkbWluIjp0cnVlfQ.SwyHTEx_RQppr97g4J5lKXtabJecpejuef8AqKYMAJc&1-2-.-93=sdfdsfsdfsdff'; preg_match_all($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