Regular Expressions 101

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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

Regular Expression
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/
/
g

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Generated Code

$re = '/\["([A-Z]*\d+)"/'; $str = '",[[3,"bus.png",null,"Bus",[["https://maps.gstatic.com/mapfiles/transit/iw2/b/bus.png",0,[15,15],null,0]]]],[[null,null,null,null,"0x31da18325b415901:0xeb661015c651c24a",[[5,["48",1,"#ffffff"]]]],[null,null,null,null,"0x31da19f34e04d59b:0x5758ef6990938b",[[5,["61",1,"#ffffff"]]]],[null,null,null,null,"0x31da1a5b8b75c379:0x6a13e189555f9fab",[[5,["95",1,"#ffffff"]]]],[null,null,null,null,"0x31da1a16ea23bf95:0xd7c90f15535c2b9f",[[5,["106",1,"#ffffff"]]]],[null,null,null,null,"0x31da10a7613d616f:0xf1f61ffeac2ea8a4",[[5,["970",1,"#ffffff"]]]],[null,null,null,null,"0x31da1a0bd6262d0b:0xfbd5d2bfd7a1252",[[5,["NR8",1,"#ffffff"]]]]],null,0,"5"]]],["http://www 48, 61,95,106,970,NR8'; preg_match_all($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