Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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  • 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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Test String

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$re = '/.*?(<td style="width:50%">((?!<\/td>).)*?<\/td>)/s'; $str = '<div class="criteria" style="padding-left:0;font-style:italic">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You searched for: <span title="A*" >Individual: <span><b>A*</b></span></span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%"> <tr class="ListItemColorNew"> <td style="width:50%"> <div class="gvListItemStyle"> <span class="LargeText15">JAMES BOND A&#39;MONEYPENNY </span> (LIC# 1111111) <div class="GrayTextShade"><i>Alternate Names: BOND JAMES</i></div> <div class="GrayTextShade"> GREY TIDE LLC (LIC# 2222) </div> </div> </td> <td style="width: 25%; vertical-align: top"> <div class="gvListItemStyle"> <div><img alt="help" src=\\\'/Content/images/BrokerCheck/icon-blueCheck.png\\\' style=\\\'vertical-align:top;padding-right:5px\\\' />Broker</div> </div> </td> <td style="width:25%;text-align:right;vertical-align:top"> <div class="gvListItemStyle"> <a class="btn btn-primary" href="/Individual/Summary/5820616">Details &#187;</a> </div> </td> </tr>'; $subst = ""; $result = preg_replace($re, $subst, $str); echo "The result of the substitution is ".$result;

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