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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[0-9]{12}(?:[0-9]{3})? | 5[1-5][0-9]{14} | 6(?:011|5[0-9][0-9])[0-9]{12} | 3[47][0-9]{13} | 3(?:0[0-5]|[68][0-9])[0-9]{11} | (?:2100|2131|1800|35\d{3})\d{11}) $/mix'; $str = '#American Express 370517943574132 372714451742486 370010255141385 341263547614307 343874494387669 #VISA 4024007125780444 4439944519233615 4658355677043536 4532926168018906 4532249806735728 #MasterCard 5524097521691644 5367170623993901 5553103980950937 5549194987582424 5141794881796756 #JCB 15 digits 180078244412845 210013400722277 210082510016250 180056142071970 210043823226606 #JCB 3158822586903214 3088687202983378 3158899851849561 3096803356450490 3337852908456769 #Dinners Club 30193567772121 30131361923813 30198560976769 30260244203356 36297440059376 '; preg_match_all($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