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

/
/
gxm

Test String

Substitution

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Code Generator

Generated Code

$re = '/(?: # 采用非捕获括号进行分组(非必要不使用捕获型括号) (`{3,}) # 捕获组,匹配三个及以上反引号,并进行捕获 [\s\S]*? # 采用非贪婪匹配(必须),匹配0到n次空白或非空白字符(任意字符) (?:(?:\1`*)|\Z) # 引用,引用了之前的捕获组,若之前捕获了5个反引号,则在此必须匹配5个以上反引号,若开头三个以上反引号,后面没有比开头更多的反引号,则后面都是代码块 ) # 结束第一个分支 | # 或符号 (?: # 同上,采用非捕获型括号 (~{3,}) # 同上,匹配三个及以上波浪号并进行捕获 [\s\S]*? # 同上,非贪婪匹配来匹配0到n次空白或非空白字符 (?:(?:\2~*)|\Z) # 引用,引用了之前的捕获组 ) # 结束第二个分支 | # 或符号 (?: # 同上,采用非捕获型括号 (?<= # 肯定型逆序环视,左侧文本必须满足条件才可以匹配 (?:^\n)|(?:^\A) # 上一行必须只有一个回车(以回车符号开头)或没有上一行 ) # 结束环视 (?: # 采用非捕获型括号分组 (?:\s{4,}?|\t+?)[^\n]*(?:\n|$) # 匹配四个及以上空格或一个以上制表符开启的一行 )+ # 上面的子组匹配1次到n次 ) # 结束第三个分支/xm'; $str = ' this is a code block // 1. 匹配四个空格导出的代码块 functino(asfd) safdsadf safsadf safdsdaf // 2. 匹配三个反引号所引出的代码块 ``` func function(){ } ``` 这里是一些文本 …… ……………… ``` python print("hello") ``` // 3.如果四个空格之前的一行不是回车独占一行,则不会导出代码块(符合Markdown约定) function(asfd) safdsadf safsadf safdsdaf safd // 4. 匹配三个波浪号导出的代码块 ~~~ fmt.println(123) ~~~ // 5. 匹配前后四个及以上反引号导出的代码块 ```` aaa ``` ```` 这里是一些文本…… ````` print("this is a code block") ````` ````` print("this is a code block") ```````````````````````` // 6. 匹配前后四个及以上波浪号导出的代码块 ~~~~ aaa ~~~ ~~~~ 这里是一些文本…… ~~~~~~ print("this is a code block") ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ print("this is a code block") ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // 7. 只有开头,没有结尾的,都算代码块 ``` asdfasdf asdfasdf asdfasdf asdfasdf asdfasdf asdf 没有结尾,这里也算代码块'; $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