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

/
/
gx

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

$re = '/(?(DEFINE) (?<recurs> (?! {@|@} ) [^|] [^{@|\\\\]* ( \\\\.[^{@|\\\\]* )* | (?R) ) ) {@ (?<If>\w+)- (?<Condition>(%?\w++ (:\w+)*)* ) (?<True> [|] [^{@|]*+ (?&recurs)* ) (?<False> [|] (?&recurs)* )? \s*@}/x'; $str = '{@if-statement:sub%statement2| <header id="header_home"> <div class="in"> <div class="top"> <h1 class="logo"><a href="/"><img src="/img/logo-home.png" alt=""></a></h1> <div class="login_outer_wrapper"> <button id="login"><div class="a"><i class="stripe"><i></i></i>Log in</div></button> <div id="login_wrapper"> <form method="post" action="{^login^}" id="form_login_global"> <div class="form_field no_description"> <label>{!auth:login_email!}</label> <div class="input"><input type="text" name="form[login]"></div> </div> <div class="form_field no_description password"> <label>{!auth:password!}</label> <div class="input"><input type="password" name="form[password]"></div> </div> <div class="remember"> <input type="checkbox" name="remember" id="remember_me_check" checked> <label for="remember_me_check"><i class="fa fa-check" aria-hidden="true"></i>Remember</label> </div> <div class="submit_box"> <button class="btn btn_check">Log in</button> </div> </form> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content clr"> <div class="main_menu"> <a href=""> <i class="ico a"><i class="fa fa-lightbulb-o" aria-hidden="true"></i></i> <span>Idea</span> <div>&nbsp;</div> </a> <a href=""> <i class="ico b"><i class="fa fa-user" aria-hidden="true"></i></i> <span>FFa</span> </a> <a href=""> <i class="ico c"><i class="fa fa-briefcase" aria-hidden="true"></i></i> <span>Buss</span> </a> </div> <div class="text_wrapper"> <div> <div class="register_wrapper"> <a id="main_register" class="btn register">Załóż konto</a> <form method="post" action="{^login^}" id="form_register_home"> <div class="form_field no_description"> <label>{!auth:email!}</label> <div class="input"><input type="text" name="form2[email]"></div> </div> <div class="form_field no_description password"> <label>{!auth:password!}</label> <div class="input tooltip"><input type="password" name="form2[password]"><i class="fa fa-info-circle tooltip_open" aria-hidden="true" title="{!auth:password_format!}"></i></div> </div> <div class="form_field terms no_description"> <div class="input"> <input type="checkbox" name="form2[terms]" id="terms_check"> <label for="terms_check"><i class="fa fa-check" aria-hidden="true"></i>Agree</label> </div> </div> <div class="form_field no_description"> <div cl\\|\\|ass="input captcha_wrapper"> <div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="{%captcha_public_key%}"></div> </div> </div> <div class="submit_box"> <button class="btn btn_check">{!auth:register_btn!}</button> </div> </form> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </header>|{@if-statement2|echo this|{@if-statement2|echo this|echo othe\\|\\|rwise@}@} @}'; 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