Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
  • Group Constructs
  • Character Classes
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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

/
/
g

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

$re = '/(>\\\\\${}((.*))<)/'; $str = '<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns="http://www.neustar.biz/clearinghouse/SOAPRequestHandler/1.0"> <soapenv:Header/> <soapenv:Body> <ns:processSync soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"> <in0 xs:type="type:string" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2000/XMLSchema-instance"><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><header> <Request value="SOARequest"/> <Subrequest value="SvCreateRequest"/> <CustomerIdentifier value="PAT_TST"/> <Supplier value="NEUSTAR"/> <InterfaceVersion value="1_0"/> <UserIdentifier value="example"/> <UserPassword value="example"/> <ApplyBusinessRules value="Y"/> <Action value="submit"/> </header>]]></in0> <in1 xs:type="type:string" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2000/XMLSchema-instance"><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SOAMessage> <UpstreamToSOA> <UpstreamToSOAHeader> <InitSPID value="XS11"/> <OID value="242424249"/> <DateSent value="06-19-2017-080000AM"/> <SvType value= "Wireline"/> <Action value="submit"/> </UpstreamToSOAHeader> <UpstreamToSOABody> <SvCreateRequest> <Subscription> <Tn value=${Tn}/> </Subscription> <LnpType value="lspp"/> <Lrn value="4444787878"/> <NewSP value="XS11"/> <AccountId value="09040820157163815095"/> <AccountName value="HIMANSHUTHKNMUAWVF"/> <OldSP value="XS22"/> <SvType value="Wireline"/> <MMSURI value="-"/> <NewSPDueDate value="11-29-2017-1100PM"/> <PortToOriginal value="0"/> </SvCreateRequest> </UpstreamToSOABody> </UpstreamToSOA> </SOAMessage>]]></in1> </ns:processSync> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope>'; 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