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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

/
/
gsi

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

$re = '/(<phx:element.[^>]+?[^\/]>)(.*?)(<\/phx:element>)|(<phx:.+?>)|(<\/phx:\w+>)/si'; $str = '<div id="collection" class="scroll_collection" > <phx:TPlugin id="list0" pattern="list" pivot="true" statement="var:stmt" children="var:items" rowCount="var:pageCount" pageNum="var:index" > <phx:element id="items" name="Year" enabled="true" /> <phx:element id="items" name="ArtistId" enabled="false" /> <phx:element id="items" name="Artist" content="@artistItem.phtml" enabled="false" event="href#solPlayer.showArtist(Artist)" > <div> <strong><a href="{{ &Artist }}" >{{ Artist }}</a></strong> - <strong>{{ Album }}</strong> </div> </phx:element> <phx:element id="items" name="AlbumId" enabled="false" /> <phx:element id="items" name="Album" content="@albumItem.phtml" enabled="true" event="href#solPlayer.showAlbum(Artist)" > <div> <a href="{{ &Artist }}" > <strong>{{ Artist }}</strong> </a> </div> </phx:element> <phx:element id="items" name="TitleId" enabled="false" /> <phx:element id="items" name="Title" content="@titleItem.phtml" dragHelper="@titleDragged.phtml" enabled="true" event="href#solPlayer.pl.addTrack(TitleId)" > <div name="draggable" data-dragHelperId="{{ TitleId }}" data-dragHelperIndex="{{ Title:index }}" data-band="{{ Artist }}" > <a name="addable" href="#" > <img src="/css/images/add.png" /> </a> <a href="{{ &TitleId }}" > {{ Title }} </a> </div> </phx:element> <phx:element id="items" name="TrackPath" enabled="false" /> </phx:TPlugin> <phx:TPager id="pager" for="list0" caption="Albums de ma musique" onclick="solPlayer.getData" /> </div> '; preg_match_all($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