Regular Expressions 101

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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

Regular Expression
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/
/
g

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Generated Code

$re = '/skuid: (\d+)/'; $str = '<script charset="gbk"> var pageConfig = { compatible: true, product: { modules: [ \'address\', \'prom\', \'colorsize\', \'buytype\', \'baitiao\', \'summary\', \'o2o\', \'buybtn\', \'track\', \'suits\', \'crumb\', \'fittings\', \'detail\', \'contact\', \'popbox\', \'preview\', \'info\', \'imcenter\', \'jdservice\', \'commitments\', \'gift\', \'popupCar\' ], skuid: 11157027932, cat: [670,671,672], commentVersion:\'888\', twoColumn: false, isFeeType: true, isCloseLoop:true, isBookMvd4Baby: false, addComments:true, mainSkuId:\'10122299306\', foot: \'//dx.3.cn/footer?type=common_config2\', shangjiazizhi: false } }; try { function is_sort_black_list() { var jump_sort_list = {"6881":3,"1195":3,"10011":3,"6980":3,"12360":3}; if(jump_sort_list[\'670\'] == 1 || jump_sort_list[\'671\']==2 || jump_sort_list[\'672\']==3) { return false; } return false; } </script>'; preg_match_all($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