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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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  • 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

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$re = '/http[s]?:\/(?:\/[^\/]+){1,}(?:\/[А-Яа-яёЁ\w ]+\.[a-z]{3,5}(?![\/]|[\wА-Яа-яёЁ]))/m'; $str = 'https://i.imgur.com/pO5SM73.png https://i.imgur.com https://i.imgur.ru/a.gdb http://bse.sci-lib.com/article089432.html http://megabook.ru/article/Кошка Собака.png http://architect.academic.ru/3502/Мансарда http://megabook.ru/article/%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82 http://bse.sci-lib.com/a_pictures/17/10/265722250.jpg http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/stroitel/4 <brbrbr> okk http://fooo-bar.com/more/than/file.exe fdfdfs http://fooo-bar.com/more/than/fil2.exe http://a.org/ddddd.ddddd http://a.org/ddddd.dddddв'; preg_match_all($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