Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • 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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$re = '/<span class=\"_c1 ei_card_subtitle _c1\">.*?([\dX]+).*?<\/span>/'; $str = '<body class="default-theme des-mat" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="prpd"></div><div class="" id="mngb"><div id="gb" class="gb_T"><div class="gb_nb gb_Lg gb_R gb_Kg gb_Og gb_T" style="min-width: 241px;"><div class="gb_oe gb_R gb_Lg gb_Bg"><div class="gb_Q gb_R gb_S gb_Lg"><span class="_c1 ei_card_subtitle _c1">Name<br /> 713286XXX971 - 12021980</span>/div><div class="gb_Q gb_R"><a class="gb_P" data-pid="23" href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?authuser=0">Gmail</a></div><div class="gb_Q gb_R"><a class="gb_P" data-pid="2" href="https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&amp;authuser=0">Images</a></div></div><div class="gb_Ec gb_Lg gb_R" style="min-width: 120px;"><div class="gb_fa" id="gbsfw" style="background-color:#eee;min-width:376px"><iframe ng-non-bindable="" frameborder="0" hspace="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" style="width: 376px; height: 380px;" tabindex="0" vspace="0" width="100%" class="gb_9b" allowtransparency="true" aria-hidden="true" id="I0_1523641321551" name="I0_1523641321551" src="https://notifications.google.com/u/0/widget?sourceid=243&amp;hl=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp;uc=1&amp;usegapi=1&amp;jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fscs%2Fabc-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fk%3Dgapi.gapi.en.DgOlXVbWcXc.O%2Fm%3D__features__%2Frt%3Dj%2Fd%3D1%2Frs%3DAHpOoo-riybzrJ8O_UpInxWO1d1OWu1FtA#pid=243&amp;_methods=onError%2ConInfo%2ChideNotificationWidget%2CpostSharedMessage%2Creauth%2CsetNotificationWidgetHeight%2CsetNotificationWidgetSize%2CswitchTo%2CnavigateTo%2CsetNotificationText%2CsetNotificationAnimation%2CgetNotificationText%2CvalidateUser%2C_ready&amp;id=I0_1523641321551&amp;_gfid=I0_1523641321551&amp;parent=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp;pfname=&amp;rpctoken=13573360"></iframe></div><div class="gb_da gb_9c gb_R" id="gbwa"><div class="gb_Qc"><a class="gb_b gb_hc" href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/options/" title="Google apps" aria-expanded="false" role="button" tabindex="0"></a><div class="gb_wb"></div></body>'; preg_match_all($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