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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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  • 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

Regular Expression
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Generated Code

$re = '/^(?<file_name>(?<id_hx>\d{10})(?<date>\d{8})_(?<hour>\d{6})_(?<ms>\d{6}).*\.LOG\n)(?<hash>\d{0,10}\n)(?<entry>(?:(?:(?:.*),(?:\d{0,3}.){0,})\n){0,})(?<md5>\w{0,33})$/m'; $str = '112291123220160811_153118_397769.LOG 4375459 1122911232,20160811,153118,1,172.168.40.10 1122911232,20160811,153118,1,HX não encontrado na rede,172.168.40.10 1122911232,20160811,153118,1,HX não encontrado na rede,172.168.40.10 1122911232,20160811,153118,1,HX não encontrado na rede,172.168.40.10 1122911232,20160811,153118,1,HX não encontrado na rede,172.168.40.10 1122911232,20160811,153118,1,HX não encontrado na rede,172.168.40.10 1122911232,20160811,153118,1,HX não encontrado na rede,172.168.40.10 1122911232,20160811,153118,1,123456 5aca701c53d911822ab8b0bf01fd82e4 112291123220160811_153118_397769.LOG 4375459 1122911232,20160811,153118,1,HX não encontrado na rede,172.168.40.10 1122911232,20160811,153118,1,HX não encontrado na rede,172.168.40.10 1122911232,20160811,153118,1,HX não encontrado na rede,172.168.40.10 1122911232,20160811,153118,1,HX não encontrado na rede,172.168.40.10 1122911232,20160811,153118,1,HX não encontrado na rede,172.168.40.10 1122911232,20160811,153118,1,HX não encontrado na rede,172.168.40.10 1122911232,20160811,153118,1,HX não encontrado na rede,172.168.40.10 5aca701c53d911822ab8b0bf01fd82e4'; preg_match_all($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