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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/
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iu

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$re = '/\[picture\](?:([a-z][a-z\d+\-.]*:\/{2}(?:(?:[^\p{C}\p{Z}\p{S}\p{P}\p{Nl}\p{No}\p{Me}\x{1100}-\x{115F}\x{A960}-\x{A97C}\x{1160}-\x{11A7}\x{D7B0}-\x{D7C6}\x{20D0}-\x{20FF}\x{1D100}-\x{1D1FF}\x{1D200}-\x{1D24F}\x{0640}\x{07FA}\x{302E}\x{302F}\x{3031}-\x{3035}\x{303B}]*[\x{00B7}\x{0375}\x{05F3}\x{05F4}\x{30FB}\x{002D}\x{06FD}\x{06FE}\x{0F0B}\x{3007}\x{00DF}\x{03C2}\x{200C}\x{200D}\pL0-9\-._~\!$&\'()*+,;=:@|]+|%[\dA-F]{2})+|[0-9.]+|\[[a-z0-9.]+:[a-z0-9.]+:[a-z0-9.:]+\])(?::\d*)?(?:\/(?:[^\p{C}\p{Z}\p{S}\p{P}\p{Nl}\p{No}\p{Me}\x{1100}-\x{115F}\x{A960}-\x{A97C}\x{1160}-\x{11A7}\x{D7B0}-\x{D7C6}\x{20D0}-\x{20FF}\x{1D100}-\x{1D1FF}\x{1D200}-\x{1D24F}\x{0640}\x{07FA}\x{302E}\x{302F}\x{3031}-\x{3035}\x{303B}]*[\x{00B7}\x{0375}\x{05F3}\x{05F4}\x{30FB}\x{002D}\x{06FD}\x{06FE}\x{0F0B}\x{3007}\x{00DF}\x{03C2}\x{200C}\x{200D}\pL0-9\-._~\!$&\'()*+,;=:@|]+|%[\dA-F]{2})*)*(?:\?(?:[^\p{C}\p{Z}\p{S}\p{P}\p{Nl}\p{No}\p{Me}\x{1100}-\x{115F}\x{A960}-\x{A97C}\x{1160}-\x{11A7}\x{D7B0}-\x{D7C6}\x{20D0}-\x{20FF}\x{1D100}-\x{1D1FF}\x{1D200}-\x{1D24F}\x{0640}\x{07FA}\x{302E}\x{302F}\x{3031}-\x{3035}\x{303B}]*[\x{00B7}\x{0375}\x{05F3}\x{05F4}\x{30FB}\x{002D}\x{06FD}\x{06FE}\x{0F0B}\x{3007}\x{00DF}\x{03C2}\x{200C}\x{200D}\pL0-9\-._~\!$&\'()*+,;=:@\/?|]+|%[\dA-F]{2})*)?(?:#(?:[^\p{C}\p{Z}\p{S}\p{P}\p{Nl}\p{No}\p{Me}\x{1100}-\x{115F}\x{A960}-\x{A97C}\x{1160}-\x{11A7}\x{D7B0}-\x{D7C6}\x{20D0}-\x{20FF}\x{1D100}-\x{1D1FF}\x{1D200}-\x{1D24F}\x{0640}\x{07FA}\x{302E}\x{302F}\x{3031}-\x{3035}\x{303B}]*[\x{00B7}\x{0375}\x{05F3}\x{05F4}\x{30FB}\x{002D}\x{06FD}\x{06FE}\x{0F0B}\x{3007}\x{00DF}\x{03C2}\x{200C}\x{200D}\pL0-9\-._~\!$&\'()*+,;=:@\/?|]+|%[\dA-F]{2})*)?)|(www\.(?:[^\p{C}\p{Z}\p{S}\p{P}\p{Nl}\p{No}\p{Me}\x{1100}-\x{115F}\x{A960}-\x{A97C}\x{1160}-\x{11A7}\x{D7B0}-\x{D7C6}\x{20D0}-\x{20FF}\x{1D100}-\x{1D1FF}\x{1D200}-\x{1D24F}\x{0640}\x{07FA}\x{302E}\x{302F}\x{3031}-\x{3035}\x{303B}]*[\x{00B7}\x{0375}\x{05F3}\x{05F4}\x{30FB}\x{002D}\x{06FD}\x{06FE}\x{0F0B}\x{3007}\x{00DF}\x{03C2}\x{200C}\x{200D}\pL0-9\-._~\!$&\'()*+,;=:@|]+|%[\dA-F]{2})+(?::\d*)?(?:\/(?:[^\p{C}\p{Z}\p{S}\p{P}\p{Nl}\p{No}\p{Me}\x{1100}-\x{115F}\x{A960}-\x{A97C}\x{1160}-\x{11A7}\x{D7B0}-\x{D7C6}\x{20D0}-\x{20FF}\x{1D100}-\x{1D1FF}\x{1D200}-\x{1D24F}\x{0640}\x{07FA}\x{302E}\x{302F}\x{3031}-\x{3035}\x{303B}]*[\x{00B7}\x{0375}\x{05F3}\x{05F4}\x{30FB}\x{002D}\x{06FD}\x{06FE}\x{0F0B}\x{3007}\x{00DF}\x{03C2}\x{200C}\x{200D}\pL0-9\-._~\!$&\'()*+,;=:@|]+|%[\dA-F]{2})*)*(?:\?(?:[^\p{C}\p{Z}\p{S}\p{P}\p{Nl}\p{No}\p{Me}\x{1100}-\x{115F}\x{A960}-\x{A97C}\x{1160}-\x{11A7}\x{D7B0}-\x{D7C6}\x{20D0}-\x{20FF}\x{1D100}-\x{1D1FF}\x{1D200}-\x{1D24F}\x{0640}\x{07FA}\x{302E}\x{302F}\x{3031}-\x{3035}\x{303B}]*[\x{00B7}\x{0375}\x{05F3}\x{05F4}\x{30FB}\x{002D}\x{06FD}\x{06FE}\x{0F0B}\x{3007}\x{00DF}\x{03C2}\x{200C}\x{200D}\pL0-9\-._~\!$&\'()*+,;=:@\/?|]+|%[\dA-F]{2})*)?(?:#(?:[^\p{C}\p{Z}\p{S}\p{P}\p{Nl}\p{No}\p{Me}\x{1100}-\x{115F}\x{A960}-\x{A97C}\x{1160}-\x{11A7}\x{D7B0}-\x{D7C6}\x{20D0}-\x{20FF}\x{1D100}-\x{1D1FF}\x{1D200}-\x{1D24F}\x{0640}\x{07FA}\x{302E}\x{302F}\x{3031}-\x{3035}\x{303B}]*[\x{00B7}\x{0375}\x{05F3}\x{05F4}\x{30FB}\x{002D}\x{06FD}\x{06FE}\x{0F0B}\x{3007}\x{00DF}\x{03C2}\x{200C}\x{200D}\pL0-9\-._~\!$&\'()*+,;=:@\/?|]+|%[\dA-F]{2})*)?))\[\/picture\]/iu'; $str = '[picture]https://www.phpbb.com/assets/images/images/logo_phpbb.png?q=&#40;v&#41;[/picture] '; preg_match($re, $str, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE, 0); // Print the entire match result var_dump($matches);

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