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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/
gm

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$re = '/(.*)(GET|POST|HEAD) ([^? ]+)\?([^\"]+)(\".*)/m'; $str = '2024/11/15 13:10:11 [error] 4080#4080: *260309 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 210.54.88.72, server: mpos.mintpayments.com, request: "GET /payment-mint/cnpPayments/v1/publicKeys?callback=jQuery360014295356911736334_1731369073329&X-Signature=plkb810sFSSSIbASLb818BMXxgtUM76QNvhI%252FBA%253D&X-Timestamp=1731368881376&X-ApiKey=CSSSAPXXXXXXPxmO7kjMi&X-CompanyToken=d1111e8lV1mpvljiCD2zRgEEU121p&_=1731369073330 HTTP/1.1", upstream: "https://10.20.3.59:28076//cnpPayments/v1/publicKeys?callback=jQuery360014295356911736334_17313690733...", host: "test.mintpayments.com", referrer: "https://vicky9.mintpayments.com/testing??asd"'; $subst = "$1$2 $3$5"; $result = preg_replace($re, $subst, $str); echo "The result of the substitution is ".$result;

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