Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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  • Quantifiers
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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

Regular Expression
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$re = '/^(?<host>\S+)\s-\s(?<user>\S+)\s\[(?<time>[^\]]*)\](?:\s(?<method>\w+))?(?:\s(?<url>\/\S+))?\s(?<http_version>\S+)\s"(?<status>\d+)"\s(?<bytes>\d+)(?:\s"(?<rfc>[^\"]*)")?(?:\s"(?<agent>[^\"]*)")?\s"(?<x_forward>[^\"]*)"\s(?<time_spent>[\d.]+).*$/m'; $str = '172.31.33.157 - - [08/May/2017:16:30:20 +0800] - "400" 0 "-" "-" "-" 0.000 172.31.44.196 - - [08/May/2017:18:47:31 +0800] GET /click?mb_pl=ios&version=1.1 HTTP/1.1 "302" 5 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 10_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/14E304" "100.38.38.149, 54.224.136.60" 0.004 172.31.44.196 - - [08/May/2017:18:47:31 +0800] GET /click?mb_pl=ios&version=1.1 HTTP/1.1 "302" 5 "-" "" "100.38.38.149, 54.224.136.60" 0.004 172.31.44.196 - - [08/May/2017:18:47:31 +0800] GET /click?mb_pl=ios&version=1.1 HTTP/1.1 "302" 5 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 10_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/14E304" "100.38.38.149, 54.224.136.60" 0.004'; preg_match_all($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