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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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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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Generated Code

$re = '/\b[A-Z]{2}\b/m'; $str = 'EFS Web 2.1.17 Corresponding to 1 102742238 CN A 2012-10-17 ZTE USA Inc. US20130094411A1 3 20150318972 2015-11-05 Zhang et al. 2 20130128860 2013-05-23 Zhang 1 20130094411 2013-04-18 Zhang EFS Web 2.1.17 Examiner Signature Date Considered 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network; Evolved Universal 1 Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical channels and modulation (Release 12), 3GPP TS 36.211 V12.7.0 fONAR_ NAN 12R nanac vs Corresponding to 4 2014110837 WO Al 2014-07-24 Fujitsu Ltd. et al. US20150318972A1 3 2014107012 WO Al 2014-07-10 LG Electronics Inc. ; Corresponding to 2 103120006 CN A 2013-05-22 ZTE Corporation US20130128860A1 A fg FG ddDF dFGg A1 AL Al EFS Web 2.1.17 | | pore !'; preg_match_all($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