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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • 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
No Match

/
/
gm

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$re = '/esdfdsdg/m'; $str = '[MediaClient.19516, 2022-09-06T08:55:47.011; Info]: (pjproject_interface_impl.cc:171): pjsua_core.c:459 .RX 2702 bytes Response msg 200/INVITE/cseq=7943 (rdata000001EF7B4F91D0) from TLS 203.252.54.20:443: to 192.259.19.37:59160 SIP/2.0 200 OK Via: SIP/2.0/TLS 192.259.19.37:59160;rport=59160;received=64.37.175.80;branch=z9hG4bKPj5eaadcef35a3486e9414d26c3b329ba7 Call-ID: 219a7090d9464e5988618fa5d9e022dc From: "John dale" <sip:fiber@service.com>;tag=3a931b11390244bc990d45e82b8345ed To: "service" <sips:c016130e-fa4e-454a-b249-4a6f8d6cf276@sip-203-252-54-20.bjn.vc>;tag=MTAuMTA4LjEyLjE4OjQ1ODExOjI- CSeq: 7943 INVITE Contact: "Service" <sip:c016130e-fa4e-454a-b249-4a6f8d6cf276@sip-203-252-54-20.cji.vc:443;transport=tls> Allow: PRACK, INVITE, ACK, BYE, CANCEL, UPDATE, SUBSCRIBE, NOTIFY, REFER, INFO, OPTIONS Supported: 100rel Content-Type: application/sdp Content-Length: 2027 v=0 o=BlueJeans 0 3871442120 IN IP4 203.252.54.20 s=- c=IN IP4 203.252.54.20 t=0 0 a=x-bwmgr:delay a=extmap:1 http://www.webrtc.org/experiments/rtp-hdrext/abs-send-time m=audio 42613 RTP/SAVP 121 96 a=crypto:1 AEAD_AES_256_GCM a=rtcp:42613 a=rtpmap:121 DVC-2/8000 a=rtpmap:96 telephone-event/8000 a=fmtp:96 0-15 a=sendrecv a=ice-ufrag:b510 a=ice-pwd:2224b63a+7b01+4929+9ba6+ a=candidate:H67ff3614 1 UDP 2130706431 103.255.54.20 42613 typ host a=rtcp-mux a=remote-candidates:1 203.252.54.20 26047 2 203.252.54.20 26047 m=video 42614 RTP/SAVP 102 122 116 125 b=TIAS:4096000 a=crypto:1 AEAD_AES_256_GCM --end--msg'; preg_match_all($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