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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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/

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$re = '/\d{2,5}x\d{2,5}/'; $str = 'Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 4.4.7 (GCC) 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-11) configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/cpffmpeg --enable-shared --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-decoder=liba52 --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/cpffmpeg/include/ --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/cpffmpeg/lib --enable-version3 --extra-version=syslint libavutil 54. 19.100 / 54. 19.100 libavcodec 56. 26.100 / 56. 26.100 libavformat 56. 23.106 / 56. 23.106 libavdevice 56. 4.100 / 56. 4.100 libavfilter 5. 11.102 / 5. 11.102 libswscale 3. 1.101 / 3. 1.101 libswresample 1. 1.100 / 1. 1.100 libpostproc 53. 3.100 / 53. 3.100Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from \'/var/zpanel/hostdata/zadmin/public_html/chandelier.mp4\': Metadata: major_brand : isom minor_version : 512 compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41 URL : Follow Me On > www.hamhame1.in compilation : 0 title : Follow Me On > www.hamhame1.in artist : Follow Me On > www.hamhame1.in album : Follow Me On > www.hamhame1.in date : Follow Me On > www.hamhame1.in genre : Follow Me On > www.hamhame1.in comment : Follow Me On > www.hamhame1.in composer : Follow Me On > www.hamhame1.in original_artist : Follow Me On > www.hamhame1.in copyright : Follow Me On > www.hamhame1.in encoder : Follow Me On > www.hamhame1.in album_artist : Follow Me On > www.hamhame1.in season_number : 0 episode_sort : 0 track : 0 disc : 0 media_type : 0 Duration: 00:03:51.35, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 2778 kb/s Stream 0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 > DAR 16:9], 2646 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 90k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default) Metadata: handler_name : VideoHandler Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 125 kb/s (default) Metadata: handler_name : SoundHandlerAt least one output file must be specified'; preg_match($re, $str, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE, 0); // Print the entire match result var_dump($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