Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common 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
No Match

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sgU

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$re = '/<td class="lineColumn">(.*)<\/td>(.*)<td class="stationColumn">(.*)<span(.*)<td class="inMinColumn">(.*)<\/td>/sU'; $str = ' <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=340px"> <title>MVG-Live: Westkreuz Bf.</title> <link type="text/css" rel=\'stylesheet\' href=\'css/size30/mvg/mvglive-mobile.css\' media=\'all\'> </head> <body> <div class="departureTable header logo"> <div class="logoLeft"> <img class="logoImgLeft" src="images/size30/grafik/mvg/mobile-logo-left.jpg" alt="MVG live"> </div> <div class="logoRight"> <img class="logoImgRight" src="images/size30/grafik/mvg/mobile-logo-right.jpg" alt="MVG live"> </div> </div> <table class="departureTable departureView"> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="headerStationColumn">Westkreuz Bf.</td> <td colspan="2" class="serverTimeColumn">21:33</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" class="sBahnHeader">S-Bahn M&uuml;nchen (Daten DB Regio AG)</td> </tr> <tr class="rowOdd"> <td class="lineColumn">S6</td> <td class="stationColumn"> Ebersberg(Oberbay) <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">1</td> </tr> <tr class="rowEven"> <td class="lineColumn">S8</td> <td class="stationColumn"> Herrsching <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">5</td> </tr> <tr class="rowOdd"> <td class="lineColumn">S8</td> <td class="stationColumn"> München Flughafen Terminal <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">6</td> </tr> <tr class="rowEven"> <td class="lineColumn">S6</td> <td class="stationColumn"> Starnberg <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">11</td> </tr> <tr class="rowOdd"> <td class="lineColumn">S6</td> <td class="stationColumn"> Ebersberg(Oberbay) <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">21</td> </tr> <tr class="rowEven"> <td class="lineColumn">S8</td> <td class="stationColumn"> Weßling(Oberbay) <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">25</td> </tr> <tr class="rowOdd"> <td class="lineColumn">S8</td> <td class="stationColumn"> München Flughafen Terminal <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">26</td> </tr> <tr class="rowEven"> <td class="lineColumn">S6</td> <td class="stationColumn"> Tutzing <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">31</td> </tr> <tr class="rowOdd"> <td class="lineColumn">S6</td> <td class="stationColumn"> Grafing Bahnhof <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">41</td> </tr> <tr class="rowEven"> <td class="lineColumn">S8</td> <td class="stationColumn"> Herrsching <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">45</td> </tr> <tr class="rowOdd"> <td class="lineColumn">S8</td> <td class="stationColumn"> München Flughafen Terminal <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">46</td> </tr> <tr class="rowEven"> <td class="lineColumn">S6</td> <td class="stationColumn"> Tutzing <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">51</td> </tr> <tr class="rowOdd"> <td class="lineColumn">S6</td> <td class="stationColumn"> Ebersberg(Oberbay) <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">61</td> </tr> <tr class="rowEven"> <td class="lineColumn">S8</td> <td class="stationColumn"> Weßling(Oberbay) <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">65</td> </tr> <tr class="rowOdd"> <td class="lineColumn">S8</td> <td class="stationColumn"> München Flughafen Terminal <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">66</td> </tr> <tr class="rowEven"> <td class="lineColumn">S6</td> <td class="stationColumn"> Tutzing <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">71</td> </tr> <tr class="rowOdd"> <td class="lineColumn">S6</td> <td class="stationColumn"> Ebersberg(Oberbay) <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">81</td> </tr> <tr class="rowEven"> <td class="lineColumn">S8</td> <td class="stationColumn"> Herrsching <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">85</td> </tr> <tr class="rowOdd"> <td class="lineColumn">S8</td> <td class="stationColumn"> München Flughafen Terminal <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">86</td> </tr> <tr class="rowEven"> <td class="lineColumn">S6</td> <td class="stationColumn"> Tutzing <span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span> </td> <td class="inMinColumn">91</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" class="reloadLink"> <a href="/ims/dfiStaticAnzeige.svc?haltestelle=Westkreuz Bf.&ubahn=&bus=&tram=&sbahn=checked"> Fahrten aktualisieren </a> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="departureTable footerTable"> <tr> <td class="footer"> <a href="http://www.mvg-mobil.de/impressum.htm" target="_blank">Impressum</a> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>'; 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