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
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gm

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$re = '/(?<="Core #3 VID",)\n "SensorValue": "[0-9]+(\,[0-9]+)?/m'; $str = '[ { "SensorApp": "HWiNFO", "SensorClass": "System", "SensorName": "Virtual Memory Commited", "SensorValue": "31385", "SensorUnit": "MB", "SensorUpdateTime": 1558534280 }, { "SensorApp": "HWiNFO", "SensorClass": "System", "SensorName": "Virtual Memory Available", "SensorValue": "5951", "SensorUnit": "MB", "SensorUpdateTime": 1558534280 }, { "SensorApp": "HWiNFO", "SensorClass": "System", "SensorName": "Virtual Memory Load", "SensorValue": "84", "SensorUnit": "%", "SensorUpdateTime": 1558534280 }, { "SensorApp": "HWiNFO", "SensorClass": "System", "SensorName": "Physical Memory Used", "SensorValue": "30134", "SensorUnit": "MB", "SensorUpdateTime": 1558534280 }, { "SensorApp": "HWiNFO", "SensorClass": "System", "SensorName": "Physical Memory Available", "SensorValue": "2338", "SensorUnit": "MB", "SensorUpdateTime": 1558534280 }, { "SensorApp": "HWiNFO", "SensorClass": "System", "SensorName": "Physical Memory Load", "SensorValue": "92,7", "SensorUnit": "%", "SensorUpdateTime": 1558534280 }, { "SensorApp": "HWiNFO", "SensorClass": "System", "SensorName": "Page File Usage", "SensorValue": "27,2209569027549", "SensorUnit": "%", "SensorUpdateTime": 1558534280 }, { "SensorApp": "HWiNFO", "SensorClass": "CPU [#0]: Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3", "SensorName": "Core #0 VID", "SensorValue": "0,7376708984375", "SensorUnit": "V", "SensorUpdateTime": 1558534280 }, { "SensorApp": "HWiNFO", "SensorClass": "CPU [#0]: Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3", "SensorName": "Core #1 VID", "SensorValue": "0,73828125", "SensorUnit": "V", "SensorUpdateTime": 1558534280 }, { "SensorApp": "HWiNFO", "SensorClass": "CPU [#0]: Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3", "SensorName": "Core #2 VID", "SensorValue": "0,73828125", "SensorUnit": "V", "SensorUpdateTime": 1558534280 }, { "SensorApp": "HWiNFO", "SensorClass": "CPU [#0]: Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3", "SensorName": "Core #3 VID", "SensorValue": "0,7449951171875", "SensorUnit": "V", "SensorUpdateTime": 1558534280 }, { "SensorApp": "HWiNFO", "SensorClass": "CPU [#0]: Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3", "SensorName": "Core #0 Clock", "SensorValue": "983,934044334975", "SensorUnit": "MHz", "SensorUpdateTime": 1558534280 }, { "SensorApp": "HWiNFO", "SensorClass": "CPU [#0]: Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3", "SensorName": "Core #1 Clock", "SensorValue": "983,934044334975", "SensorUnit": "MHz", "SensorUpdateTime": 1558534280 }, { "SensorApp": "HWiNFO", "SensorClass": "CPU [#0]: Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3", "SensorName": "Core #2 Clock", "SensorValue": "983,934044334975", "SensorUnit": "MHz", "SensorUpdateTime": 1558534280 },'; 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