regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

1st Alternative\b(?:(?:31(\/|-| |\.)(?:0?[13578]|1[02]|(?:Jan|January|Mar|March|May|Jul|July|Aug|August|Oct|October|Dec|December)))\1|(?:(?:29|30)(\/|-| |\.)(?:0?[1,3-9]|1[0-2]|(?:Jan|January|Mar|March|Apr|April|May|Jun|June|Jul|July|Aug|August|Sep|September|Oct|October|Nov|November|Dec|December))\2))(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})\b

\ban ASCII word boundary

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?:31(\/|-| |\.)(?:0?[13578]|1[02]|(?:Jan|January|Mar|March|May|Jul|July|Aug|August|Oct|October|Dec|December)))\1|(?:(?:29|30)(\/|-| |\.)(?:0?[1,3-9]|1[0-2]|(?:Jan|January|Mar|March|Apr|April|May|Jun|June|Jul|July|Aug|August|Sep|September|Oct|October|Nov|November|Dec|December))\2))

1st Alternative(?:31(\/|-| |\.)(?:0?[13578]|1[02]|(?:Jan|January|Mar|March|May|Jul|July|Aug|August|Oct|October|Dec|December)))\1

Non-Capturing Group(?:31(\/|-| |\.)(?:0?[13578]|1[02]|(?:Jan|January|Mar|March|May|Jul|July|Aug|August|Oct|October|Dec|December)))

31the literal text 31

Group 1(\/|-| |\.)

1st Alternative\/

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

2nd Alternative-

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

3rd Alternative

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

4th Alternative\.

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:0?[13578]|1[02]|(?:Jan|January|Mar|March|May|Jul|July|Aug|August|Oct|October|Dec|December))

1st Alternative0?[13578]

0?optionally matches the literal 0 (48₁₀ / 60₈ / 30₁₆)

Character Class[13578]

1the literal 1 (49₁₀ / 61₈ / 31₁₆)

3the literal 3 (51₁₀ / 63₈ / 33₁₆)

5the literal 5 (53₁₀ / 65₈ / 35₁₆)

7the literal 7 (55₁₀ / 67₈ / 37₁₆)

8the literal 8 (56₁₀ / 70₈ / 38₁₆)

2nd Alternative1[02]

1the literal 1 (49₁₀ / 61₈ / 31₁₆)

Character Class[02]

0the literal 0 (48₁₀ / 60₈ / 30₁₆)

2the literal 2 (50₁₀ / 62₈ / 32₁₆)

3rd Alternative(?:Jan|January|Mar|March|May|Jul|July|Aug|August|Oct|October|Dec|December)

Non-Capturing Group(?:Jan|January|Mar|March|May|Jul|July|Aug|August|Oct|October|Dec|December)

1st AlternativeJan

Janthe literal text Jan (case sensitive)

2nd AlternativeJanuary

Januarythe literal text January (case sensitive)

3rd AlternativeMar

Marthe literal text Mar (case sensitive)

4th AlternativeMarch

Marchthe literal text March (case sensitive)

5th AlternativeMay

Maythe literal text May (case sensitive)

6th AlternativeJul

Julthe literal text Jul (case sensitive)

7th AlternativeJuly

Julythe literal text July (case sensitive)

8th AlternativeAug

Augthe literal text Aug (case sensitive)

9th AlternativeAugust

Augustthe literal text August (case sensitive)

10th AlternativeOct

11th AlternativeOctober

12th AlternativeDec

13th AlternativeDecember

\1the text saved by group 1

2nd Alternative(?:(?:29|30)(\/|-| |\.)(?:0?[1,3-9]|1[0-2]|(?:Jan|January|Mar|March|Apr|April|May|Jun|June|Jul|July|Aug|August|Sep|September|Oct|October|Nov|November|Dec|December))\2)

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})

\ban ASCII word boundary

2nd Alternative\b(?:29(\/|-| |\.)(?:0?2|(?:Feb|February))\3(?:(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?(?:0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00))))\b

3rd Alternative\b(?:0?[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])(\/|-| |\.)(?:(?:0?[1-9]|(?:Jan|January|Feb|February|Mar|March|Apr|April|May|Jun|June|Jul|July|Aug|August|Sep|September))|(?:1[0-2]|(?:Oct|October|Nov|November|Dec|December)))\4(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})\b

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

Search reference

Regular Expression

\b(?:(?:31(\/|-| |\.)(?:0?[13578]|1[02]|(?:Jan|January|Mar|March|May|Jul|July|Aug|August|Oct|October|Dec|December)))\1|(?:(?:29|30)(\/|-| |\.)(?:0?[1,3-9]|1[0-2]|(?:Jan|January|Mar|March|Apr|April|May|Jun|June|Jul|July|Aug|August|Sep|September|Oct|October|Nov|November|Dec|December))\2))(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})\b|\b(?:29(\/|-| |\.)(?:0?2|(?:Feb|February))\3(?:(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?(?:0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00))))\b|\b(?:0?[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])(\/|-| |\.)(?:(?:0?[1-9]|(?:Jan|January|Feb|February|Mar|March|Apr|April|May|Jun|June|Jul|July|Aug|August|Sep|September))|(?:1[0-2]|(?:Oct|October|Nov|November|Dec|December)))\4(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})\b

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