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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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  • Character Classes
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  • 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

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$re = '/#Line Address ((?<= ^[0-9a-fA-F]{6}\: ) | (?<= ^[0-9a-fA-F]{2}\/[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\: ) ) #Space \s+ #Pre-Bytes stuff .*? [0-9a-fA-F]+ [\+\-\!\@\*\#\^x\$\s]* (?(?= \t ) (\t) | (?(?= [ ]{2})[ ]{2}|(?=($|\n))))/mx'; $str = '[] C10000: FFFF FFFF C10004: FFFF FFFF C1/0000: FFFF FFFF C1/0004: FFFF FFFF ; C1/0008: - FFFF FFFF ADC # C0/FB6A: - 69 1000 +1 XBA #$0010 C0/FB6A: -- 6 9 1 0 0 0 ++1 ADC #$0010 [ffffffffffffffffff [Initial jump in this bank?] C1/000C: 204000 JSR $0040 C1/000F: 6B RTL [Jumped to by Reset code $8008] [RESET_VECTOR] C1/0010: 5CE54CC1 JMP $C14CE5 [Jump to Reset 1-1] [] C1/0014: 20304C + JSR $4C30 [Jump to Reset 1-2] C1/0017: + 6B - RTL C1/0018: 5CFA4CC1 JMP $C14CFA [ffffffffffff'; preg_match_all($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