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
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/
/
g

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$re = '/https?:\/\/.+/'; $str = 'https://ok.ru/videoembed/9764262647149/1745154591502/583149145965/jibj52SnD6JC2IlcuvRS6Ji_k5U/00000087C665CF6D0000008A2E70EB0F0A00000196531ADA1A11B60000000000000000?autoplay=1&white=1&muted=1&silent=1 Version: 1.1.57 (core: 2.0.127, stat: 1.0.72, shared: 1.0.55) Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Atom/26.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Config: one-video-config, ui, core United video id: 9764262712685 Content host: vd339.okcdn.ru Connection type: http1 (reused) Throughput: 18589Kbps @ 69ms RTT Format: DASH_ONDEMAND Available Formats: DASH_ONDEMAND, HLS_ONDEMAND, MPEG Streams: Video: avc1, Audio: mp4a Quality: auto 240p Available qualities: 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p, 144p Position: 30.869158s State: video playing Player size: 374x210 URL: https://ok.ru/videoembed/9764262712685/1745154591508/583149145965/6iPEv_U378vsO3QzTiO30hX1zpo/00000087C665CF6D0000008A2E70EB0F0A00000196531ADA1A11B60000000000000000?autoplay=1&white=1&muted=1&silent=1 Version: 1.1.57 (core: 2.0.127, stat: 1.0.72, shared: 1.0.55) Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Atom/26.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Config: one-video-config, ui, core United video id: 9764262778221 Content host: vd371.okcdn.ru Connection type: http1 (reused) Throughput: 23293Kbps @ 69ms RTT Format: DASH_ONDEMAND Available Formats: DASH_ONDEMAND, HLS_ONDEMAND, MPEG Streams: Video: avc1, Audio: mp4a Quality: auto 240p Available qualities: 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p, 144p Position: 31.865475s State: video paused Player size: 374x210 URL: https://ok.ru/videoembed/9764262778221/1745154591513/583149145965/yvlfBg9CQxEu_rxEHULd-WmknXU/00000087C665CF6D0000008A2E70EB0F0A00000196531ADA1A11B60000000000000000?autoplay=1&white=1&muted=1&silent=1 Version: 1.1.57 (core: 2.0.127, stat: 1.0.72, shared: 1.0.55) Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Atom/26.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Config: one-video-config, ui, core United video id: 9764268152173 Content host: vd172.okcdn.ru Connection type: http1 (reused) Throughput: 23765Kbps @ 64ms RTT Format: DASH_ONDEMAND Available Formats: DASH_ONDEMAND, HLS_ONDEMAND, MPEG Streams: Video: avc1, Audio: mp4a Quality: auto 240p Available qualities: 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p, 144p Position: 33.377752s State: video paused Player size: 374x210 URL: https://ok.ru/videoembed/9764268152173/1745154591518/583149145965/uFTos2QLp_Xct3fXaSUyx-tVFqs/00000087C665CF6D0000008A2E70EB0F0A00000196531ADA1A11B60000000000000000?autoplay=1&white=1&muted=1&silent=1 Version: 1.1.57 (core: 2.0.127, stat: 1.0.72, shared: 1.0.55) Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Atom/26.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Config: one-video-config, ui, core United video id: 9764268676461 Content host: vd442.okcdn.ru Connection type: http1 (reused) Throughput: 12644Kbps @ 69ms RTT Format: DASH_ONDEMAND Available Formats: DASH_ONDEMAND, HLS_ONDEMAND, MPEG Streams: Video: avc1, Audio: mp4a Quality: auto 240p Available qualities: 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p, 144p Position: 35.628398s State: video paused Player size: 374x210 URL: https://ok.ru/videoembed/9764268676461/1745154591525/583149145965/0HkRt5VtPLHylokS3SXWJa3qias/00000087C665CF6D0000008A2E70EB0F0A00000196531ADA1A11B60000000000000000?autoplay=1&white=1&muted=1&silent=1 Version: 1.1.57 (core: 2.0.127, stat: 1.0.72, shared: 1.0.55) Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Atom/26.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Config: one-video-config, ui, core United video id: 9764269921645 Content host: vd510.okcdn.ru Connection type: http1 (reused) Throughput: 13317Kbps @ 71ms RTT Format: DASH_ONDEMAND Available Formats: DASH_ONDEMAND, HLS_ONDEMAND, MPEG Streams: Video: avc1, Audio: mp4a Quality: auto 240p Available qualities: 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p, 144p Position: 37.933283s State: video paused Player size: 374x210 URL: https://ok.ru/videoembed/9764269921645/1745154591531/583149145965/olfC3KI6LA6lXekGtwm-n8kz93U/00000087C665CF6D0000008A2E70EB0F0A00000196531ADA1A11B60000000000000000?autoplay=1&white=1&muted=1&silent=1 Version: 1.1.57 (core: 2.0.127, stat: 1.0.72, shared: 1.0.55) Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Atom/26.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Config: one-video-config, ui, core United video id: 9764274443629 Content host: vd393.okcdn.ru Connection type: http1 (reused) Throughput: 14329Kbps @ 66ms RTT Format: DASH_ONDEMAND Available Formats: DASH_ONDEMAND, HLS_ONDEMAND, MPEG Streams: Video: avc1, Audio: mp4a Quality: auto 240p Available qualities: 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p, 144p Position: 39.730862s State: video paused Player size: 374x210 URL: https://ok.ru/videoembed/9764274443629/1745154591536/583149145965/5_3iPoz9q0VNeXxwg2nttQEeMLs/00000087C665CF6D0000008A2E70EB0F0A00000196531ADA1A11B60000000000000000?autoplay=1&white=1&muted=1&silent=1 Version: 1.1.57 (core: 2.0.127, stat: 1.0.72, shared: 1.0.55) Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Atom/26.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 https://ok.ru/videoembed/9764275230061/1745154591545/583149145965/Ts7HAJSO1FyvKLGEvDvLYsX-RFw/00000087C665CF6D0000008A2E70EB0F0A00000196531ADA1A11B60000000000000000?autoplay=1&white=1&muted=1&silent=1'; 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