Regular Expressions 101

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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

@
@
imxg

Test String

Substitution

Processing...

Code Generator

Generated Code

$re = '@(?imx) (^\h*) # capture les espaces avant #cs (ex. < >#cs) ( \# (?> cs|comments-start ) \b\N*\R # => #cs # => commentaires (partie entre #cs et #ce) (?: # vérifie qu\'il s\'agit bien d\'un commentaire # c.-à-d. que le début de la ligne NE doit PAS être suivi par ce qui # correspond à un début (#cs) ou fin de commentaire (#ce) (?! \h* \# (?> cs|comments-start|ce|comments-end ) \b\N*\R ) # le commentaire # un commentaire peut simplement être une nouvelle ligne (\R) \N*\R | # commentaire ou récursion (si aucun commentaire trouvé) # récursion (depuis le début) pour chercher un nouveau #cs (?R) )* # les commentaire sont facultatifs \h* \# (?> ce|comments-end ) # => #ce \b\N*? # texte après #ce, facultatif (ex. #ce< TEXTE>) ) # capture, s\'il y en a, les espaces et la fin de ligne après #ce (ex. #ce blabla...< \R>) ( \h*+ $ # espaces après #ce ; seulement ceux avant la fin de ligne (ex. #ce blabla...< >$) \R? # retour à la ligne facultatif )@imx'; $str = ' #cs xyz gna #cs xyz gna gna #ce #ce #ce #ce #ce #cs xyz gna gna #ce xyz ------------------------------------- #cs ... # #cs #cs #cs ... #cs ... #ce #ce #ce #ce ;#ce #ce #ce ------------------------------------- #comments-start BON ... # #cs ... #cs ... #ce #ce ... #ce ------------------------------------- #comments-start BON ... # #comments-start ... #cs ... #comments-end #ce ... #comments-end #comments-end ------------------------------------- #cs ;#cs ;#ce #ce u u u u #cs ;#cs ;#ce #ce u u u u #cs ;#cs ;#ce #ce u u u u #cs ;#cs ;#ce #ce #cs ;#cs ;#ce #ce i #cs ;#cs ;#ce #ce i #cs ;#cs ;#ce #ce i ------------------------------------- #cs,test ... #cs... .#cs.. NE_PAS_CAPTURER #ceNE_PAS_CAPTURER ... #ce #ce #ce ------------------------------------- #cs #ce #comments-start ... # #cs #cs ... #cs--- ... # # ce NE_PAS_CAPTURER #ce #ce #ce #ce #ce ... ------------------------------------- --------- [NE PAS CAPTURER] --------- #ce #ce #ce #cs #cs #cs #cs #cs #cs '; $subst = "[\1]<span class=\"S2\">\2</span>[\3]"; $result = preg_replace($re, $subst, $str); echo "The result of the substitution is ".$result;

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