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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
  • Group Constructs
  • Character Classes
  • Flags/Modifiers
  • Substitution
  • 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
No Match

/
/
gi

Test String

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Generated Code

$re = '/(Port of Registry\s*:\s*[a-z]{1,}\s*)/i'; $str = 'ATTN : SNP TEAM Kindly be noted that recent deal was just failed due to late sub lifting by the sellers. Therefore still we can develop for sale the following panamax bulk carrier from very close bank:- (sellers are ‘Shinhan Capital’ and I have done many deals with them since last 10 years.) M/V DAEBO TRADER ============== Type : Bulk Carrier IMO NO. : 9230153 Flag : KOREA Port of Registry : JEJU Class : KR Built : 2002 / Namura Shipbuilding, Japan DWT : 73,870 mt on 13.962 m Draft GRT / NRT : 39,056 / 25,246 LOA : 224.89 m LBP : 215.00 m Draught : 13.95 m Beam : 32.20 m M/E : MAN B&W 7S50MC-C8.1 Grain Capacity : 89,000 cu.m Side-rolling hatches, Hydraulically operated, 7HO/7HA (All details are given in good faith but without guarantee.) She is laid up in Yeosu/Korea. Holding fuller details and it is at your disposal. Inviting best offers. Thanks & Best Regards Danny, Park 설명: 설명: 설명: 훼어브릿지로고(영문)가로 FAIRBRIDGE GLOBAL INC. Tel : +82 2 553 5190 Dir : +82 2 722 5191 Mob: +82 10 5299 1126 MSN: dannypark78@hotmail.com Mail: snp@fairbridge.co.kr'; preg_match_all($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