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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

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$re = '~^([ \t]*)</head~mi'; $str = '<!DOCTYPE html><html class="no-js" lang="es-ES"><head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /> <title></title> <meta name="description" content="blog de programación"/> <meta property="og:locale" content="es_ES" /> <meta property="og:type" content="website" /> <meta property="og:title" content="" /> <meta property="og:description" content="blog de programación" /> <meta property="og:url" content="" /> <meta property="og:site_name" content="" /> <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" /> <!-- This site is being optimized with the Bob Bolt SEO Premium Extension™ v0.9.7 Platinum Edition Pro. --> </head><body><div class="row" id="head"> <section id="web"> </section></div> <script src="/bolt-public/view/js/jquery-1.11.2.min.js"></script> <script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/google/code-prettify/master/loader/run_prettify.js?skin=sons-of-obsidian"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="/js/main.1445862200.js"></script></body></html>'; preg_match($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