Regular Expressions 101

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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

/
/
sU

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

$re = '/<xf:tokeninputrow.*\/>/sU'; $str = '<xf:title>{{ phrase(\'start_conversation\') }}</xf:title> <xf:breadcrumb href="{{ link(\'conversations\') }}">{{ phrase(\'conversations\') }}</xf:breadcrumb> <xf:if contentcheck="true"> <div class="blockMessage blockMessage--error blockMessage--iconic"> <xf:contentcheck> <xf:if is="$errorUsernames is not empty"> <div>{{ phrase(\'you_can_not_start_conversation_with_following_users_because_of_privacy\', {\'usernames\': $errorUsernames|join(\', \')}) }}</div> </xf:if> <xf:if is="$notFoundUsernames is not empty"> <div>{{ phrase(\'following_users_not_found_x\', {\'usernames\': $notFoundUsernames|join(\', \')}) }}</div> </xf:if> <xf:if is="$recipientLimit"> <div>{{ phrase(\'you_have_exceeded_allowed_number_of_recipients_x_for\', {\'limit\': $recipientLimit}) }}</div> </xf:if> </xf:contentcheck> </div> </xf:if> <xf:form action="{{ link(\'conversations/add\') }}" ajax="true" draft="{{ link(\'conversations/draft\') }}" data-preview-url="{{ link(\'conversations/add-preview\') }}" class="block" data-xf-init="attachment-manager"> <div class="block-container"> <div class="block-body"> <xf:tokeninputrow name="recipients" value="{$to}" href="{{ link(\'members/find\') }}" rowtype="fullWidth" label="{{ phrase(\'recipients\') }}" explain="{{ phrase(\'separate_names_with_comma\') }}" /> <xf:textboxrow name="title" value="{$title}" rowtype="fullWidth noLabel" class="input--title" maxlength="{{ max_length(\'XF:ConversationMaster\', \'title\') }}" placeholder="{{ phrase(\'title...\') }}" label="{{ phrase(\'title\') }}" /> <xf:editorrow name="message" value="{$message}" attachments="{{ $attachmentData ? $attachmentData.attachments : [] }}" rowtype="fullWidth noLabel mergePrev" /> <xf:formrow> <xf:if is="$attachmentData"> <xf:macro template="helper_attach_upload" name="upload_block" arg-attachmentData="{$attachmentData}" arg-forceHash="{$draft.attachment_hash}" /> </xf:if> <xf:if is="$xf.options.multiQuote"> <xf:macro template="multi_quote_macros" name="button" arg-href="{{ link(\'conversations/multi-quote\', $conversation) }}" arg-messageSelector=".js-message" arg-storageKey="multiQuoteConversation" /> </xf:if> <xf:button class="button--link u-jsOnly" data-xf-click="preview-click" icon="preview" /> </xf:formrow> <xf:checkboxrow> <xf:option name="open_invite" checked="{{ ($draft.open_invite OR $conversation.open_invite) ? \'checked\' : \'\' }}"> {{ phrase(\'allow_anyone_in_conversation_to_invite_others\') }} </xf:option> <xf:option name="conversation_locked" checked="{{ ($draft.conversation_open OR $conversation.conversation_open) ? \'\' : \'checked\' }}"> {{ phrase(\'lock_conversation_no_responses_will_be_allowed\') }} </xf:option> </xf:checkboxrow> </div> <xf:submitrow submit="{{ phrase(\'start_conversation\') }}" sticky="true" icon="conversation"> <xf:html> <xf:button class="u-jsOnly" data-xf-click="preview-click" icon="preview" /> </xf:html> </xf:submitrow> </div> </xf:form>'; preg_match($re, $str, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE, 0); // Print the entire match result var_dump($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