Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
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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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$re = '/^\b(0|[1-9][0-9]{0,3}|[1-5][0-9]{4}|6[0-4][0-9]{3}|65[0-4][0-9]{2}|655[0-2][0-9]|6553[0-5])\b\h(\.|\b((?=.{1,255}$)(?:xn\-\-)?(?!-)(?!.*--)[a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?(?:\.[a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?)*\.?)\b)(?:\.)?(?!=)(\h(([a-z0-9-]{1,63})((\=\")[\x21\x23-\x27\x2A-\x3A\x3C-\x7E]{1,255}+(\"))?)?)*?$/m'; $str = '230 example.com 56 subsubdomain.subdomain.example.com.thisisaverylongdomainnamewithseventycharacters 89 subsubdomain.subdomain.example.com.thisisaverylongdomainnamewithseventycharacters test 1 gOOglE.com alpn="h3,h2" 250 exmpla.com test="test" 250 exmpla.com 33="3.63" 250 . 33="363" 1 . alpn="h3,h2" 1 example.com. alpn="h3,h2" 2 . test=test 3 . test="" 1 . alpn="h3,h2" ipv4hint="192.0.2.1" ipv6hint="2001:db8::1" 1 . alpn="h3,h2" ipv4hi-nt="192.0.2.1" ipv6hint="2001:db8::1" 1 test.org alpn="h3,h2" ipv4hi-nt="192.0.2.1" ipv6hint="2001:db8::1" 1 test.org alpn="h3,h2" ipv4hi-nt="192.0.2.1" ipv6hint="2001:db8::1" ipv4hi-nt="192.0.2.1" ipv6hint="2001:db8::1" ipv4hi-nt="192.0.2.1" ipv6hint="2001:db8::1" ipv4hi-nt="192.0.2.1" ipv6hint="2001:db8::1" ipv4hi-nt="192.0.2.1" ipv6hint="2001:db8::1" 1 test.org alpnfeefefefefefwefwefwefwefwefwefwefwefwefwefwefwefhththegerg="h3,h2" 1 test.org alpnfeefefefefefwefweefwefwefwefwefwefwefwefwefhththegerg="h3\\,h2" 1 test.org test="jn7j64m764mi67i4i467nhin0iu4n6nizn4i0n6z34htj0nizn4i0n6z34htj03ht834t03h480th3hunizn4i0n6z34htj03ht834t03h480th3hunizn4i0n6z34htj03ht8303ht834t03h480th3hunizn4i0n4t03h480th3hunizn4i0n6z34htj03ht834t03h480th3hu3ht834t03h480th3hu93hu4nu9o83h" 1 test.org test="jn7j64m764mi67i4i467nhin0iu4n6nizn4i0n6z34htj0nizn4i0n6z34htj03ht834t03h480th3hunizn4i0n6z34htj03ht834t03h480th3hunizn4i0n6z34htj03ht803ht834t03h480th3hunizn4i0n4t03h480th3hunizn4i0n6z34htj03ht834t03h480th3hu3ht834t03h480th3hu93hu4nu9hho83h" 1 test.org a="h3,h2" alpn="h3,h2" 3 . test 3 . test test test 1 . 1 überall-ist.de 1 xn--berall-ist-8db.de 1 rxn--berall-ist-8db.de 65535 test.org 655357 test.org 65536 test.org 1 example.comalpn="h3,h2" ipv4hi-nt="192.0.2.1" ipv6hint="2001:db8::1" 678 tes""t 1 test.org ="test" '; preg_match_all($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