Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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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
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/
/
g

Test String

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Generated Code

$re = '/(?:font)[\ ]+([A-Za-z0-9\=\:]+)[\}\ \}]/'; $str = 'conky.config = { -- ------------------------- Windows Settings own_window = true, own_window_type = \'normal\', own_window_transparent = false, own_window_hints = \'undecorated,sticky,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager\', own_window_argb_visual = true, own_window_argb_value = 0, double_buffer = true, background = true, -- ------------------------- Position alignment = \'bottom_left\', minimum_width = 295, minimum_height = 155, maximum_width = 313, gap_x = 1252, gap_y = 155, border_inner_margin = 0, border_outer_margin = 0, border_width = 0, -- ------------------------- Font use_xft = true, xftalpha = 0.8, override_utf8_locale = true, draw_shades = true, default_shade_color = \'black\', draw_borders = false, draw_outline = false, font = \'Monofur:bold:size=8\', -- ------------------------- Color default_color = \'DCDCDC\', color0 = \'1793d0\', color1 = \'DDDDDD\', color2 = \'AAAAAA\', color3 = \'888888\', -- ------------------------- OTHER update_interval = 1, lua_load = \'~/.conky/ConkyBar/lua/net_graph.lua\', lua_draw_hook_pre = \'main_graph\', }; conky.text = [[ ${color DCDCDC} ${color DCDCDC } ${if_existing /proc/net/route enp8s0}${voffset 25}${goto 50}${font}Network${image ~/.conky/ConkyBar/img/networkhigh.png -p 0,15} ${goto 50}${font}Public ip: ${font Monofur:size=8}${texeci 36000 wget -qO - http://ip.tupeux.com | tail} ${voffset 81}${goto 50}${font}Recieve: ${font Monofur:size=8}${downspeed enp8s0}${goto 210}${font}Send: ${font Monofur:size=8}${upspeed enp8s0}${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route wlp2s0}${voffset 25}${goto 50}${font}Network ${goto 50}${font}Public ip: ${font Monofur:size=8}${texeci 36000 wget -qO - http://ip.tupeux.com | tail}${goto 210}${font}Sign: ${font Monofur:size=8}${wireless_link_qual_perc wlp2s0}% ${voffset 81}${goto 50}${font}Recieve: ${font Monofur:size=8}${downspeed wlp2s0}${goto 210}${font}Send: ${font Monofur:size=8}${upspeed wlp2s0} ${if_match "${wireless_link_qual_perc wlp2s0}"<"33"}${image ~/.conky/ConkyBar/img/networklow.png -p 0,15 -s 45x45}${else}${if_match "${wireless_link_qual_perc wlp2s0}"<"66"}${image ~/.conky/ConkyBar/img/networkmid.png -p 0,15}${else}${image ~/.conky/ConkyBar/img/networkhigh.png -p 0,15}${endif}${endif}${else}${voffset 27}${goto 50}${font}Network${image ~/.conky/ConkyBar/img/nonetwork.png -p 0,15} ${goto 50}No connection${endif}${endif} ]];'; preg_match_all($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