Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(<\?php echo L10n\:\:icon\(')

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\?the literal ? (63₁₀ / 77₈ / 3F₁₆)

php echo L10nthe literal text php echo L10n (case sensitive)

\:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

iconthe literal text icon (case sensitive)

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Group 2(.*?)

.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Group 3('\); \?>)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

; the literal text ;

\?the literal ? (63₁₀ / 77₈ / 3F₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Group 4(\n)

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

Group 5(\s+)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group 6(<\?php echo UI\:\:timeago)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\?the literal ? (63₁₀ / 77₈ / 3F₁₆)

php echo UIthe literal text php echo UI (case sensitive)

\:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

timeagothe literal text timeago (case sensitive)

Group 7(.*?)

.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Group 8(\); \?\>)

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

; the literal text ;

\?the literal ? (63₁₀ / 77₈ / 3F₁₆)

\>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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Regular Expression

(<\?php echo L10n\:\:icon\(')(.*?)('\); \?>)(\n)(\s+)(<\?php echo UI\:\:timeago)(.*?)(\); \?\>)

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