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

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gm

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$re = '/\$([^{("\\\\\'\/])([a-zA-Z0-9_]*)([^}\/ \t\'"\n.\]:]*)/m'; $str = '#!/usr/bin/env bash # version 0.1.0 function generate_secret() { ( umask 0077 ; dd if=/dev/urandom bs=24 count=1 2>/dev/null | base64 -w0 > "$1" ) } if [[ -n $SRS_DOMAINNAME ]] then NEW_DOMAIN_NAME="$SRS_DOMAINNAME" elif [[ -n $OVERRIDE_HOSTNAME ]] then NEW_DOMAIN_NAME="${OVERRIDE_HOSTNAME#*.}" elif [[ -n $DOMAINNAME ]] then NEW_DOMAIN_NAME="$DOMAINNAME" else NEW_DOMAIN_NAME=$(hostname -d) fi sed -i -e "s/localdomain/${NEW_DOMAIN_NAME}/g" /etc/default/postsrsd POSTSRSD_SECRET_FILE=\'/etc/postsrsd.secret\' POSTSRSD_STATE_DIR=\'/var/mail-state/etc-postsrsd\' POSTSRSD_STATE_SECRET_FILE="${POSTSRSD_STATE_DIR}/postsrsd.secret" if [[ -n $SRS_SECRET ]] then ( umask 0077 ; echo "$SRS_SECRET" | tr \',\' \'\\n\' > "$POSTSRSD_SECRET_FILE" ) else if [[ $ONE_DIR -eq 1 ]] then if [[ ! -f $POSTSRSD_STATE_SECRET_FILE ]] then install -d -m 0775 "$POSTSRSD_STATE_DIR" generate_secret "$POSTSRSD_STATE_SECRET_FILE" fi install -m 0400 "$POSTSRSD_STATE_SECRET_FILE" "$POSTSRSD_SECRET_FILE" elif [[ ! -f $POSTSRSD_SECRET_FILE ]] then generate_secret "$POSTSRSD_SECRET_FILE" fi fi if [[ -n $SRS_EXCLUDE_DOMAINS ]] then sed -i -e "s/^#\\?SRS_EXCLUDE_DOMAINS=.*$/SRS_EXCLUDE_DOMAINS=$SRS_EXCLUDE_DOMAINS/g" /etc/default/postsrsd fi /etc/init.d/postsrsd start '; $subst = "${$1$2$3}"; $result = preg_replace($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