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  • All Tokens
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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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$re = '/^.{4}[-"$%&*+:;=?{}a-zMZ]+.{4}$/s'; $str = '<?="";$cr="M"&"-";$cr="Z"&"*";$zero=$one=$line=$text="";$zero++;$zero--;$a=$zero;s="$zero"&"$";$one=++$one;$five=$one+$one+$one+$one+$one;$ten=$five+$five;${"v$zero"}="$s$s$s$s$s$s$s";${"v$one"}="$s$s$s$s$s$s";${"v$ten"}="$s$s$s$s$s";$g=$argc-$one;$g=$argv{$one};$space=$zero;$p=${"v$space"};$dir=$one;a:++$a;$a%$ten?:$space++;$p=${"v$space"}??$p;$line=$dir?"$line$a":"$a$line";$line=$a%$g?$dir?"$line$p":"$p$line":"$line$cr";$dir=$a%$g?$dir:$one-$dir;$text=$a%$g?$text:"$text$line";$line=$a%$g?$line:"";echo$a-$g*$g?"":$text;$a-$g*$g?:exit;goto a?>'; preg_match($re, $str, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE, 0); // Print the entire match result var_dump($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