Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
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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
No Match

/
/
g

Test String

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Generated Code

$re = '/([\w]+?\/(?:\d+?\.?)+?)\ ?\((.+?)\)\ ?([\w]+?\/(?:\d+?\.?)+?)\ (?:([\w]+?\/(?:\d+?\.?)+?[^\w])|\(([\w\d ;,:\.\-]+?)\)\ ([\w\d\.]+\/[\w\d\.]+)(?:\ ([\w\d\.\]+[\/[\w\d\.]+[^\w]))?)/'; $str = 'Firefox 40.1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.1 Firefox 36.0 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 Firefox 33.0 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0 Firefox 31.0 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i586; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20130401 Firefox/31.0 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7B405 Chrome 41.0.2228.0 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36 Chrome 41.0.2227.1 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2227.1 Safari/537.36 Chrome 41.0.2227.0 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2227.0 Safari/537.36 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2227.0 Safari/537.36 Chrome 41.0.2226.0 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2226.0 Safari/537.36 Chrome 41.0.2225.0 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.4; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2225.0 Safari/537.36 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2225.0 Safari/537.36 Opera 12.16 Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; Ubuntu/14.10) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.16 Opera 12.14 Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.0) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.14 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0 Opera 12.14 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.0) Opera 12.14 Opera 12.02 Opera/12.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.02 Opera 12.00 Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; es-ES) Presto/2.9.181 Version/12.00 Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; zh-sg) Presto/2.9.181 Version/12.00 Opera/12.0(Windows NT 5.2;U;en)Presto/22.9.168 Version/12.00 Opera/12.0(Windows NT 5.1;U;en)Presto/22.9.168 Version/12.00 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0 Opera/12.0 Opera 11.62 Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; U; pt) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.62 Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.0; U; pl) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.62 Opera 11.52'; 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