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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

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$re = '/(\')([a-z])/m'; $str = ' \'full_name\' => \'نام و نام خانوادگی\', \'mobile\' => \'شماره تلفن همراه\', \'email\' => \'ایمیل\', \'password\' => \'رمز عبور\', \'first_name\' => \'نام\', \'last_name\' => \'نام خانوادگی\', \'father_name\' => \'نام پدر\', \'national_code\' => \'کد ملی\', \'bs_number\' => \'شماره شناسنامه\', \'bs_prefix_alpha\' => \'حروف سریال شناسنامه\', \'bs_prefix_num\' => \'اعداد سریال شناسنامه\', \'bs_serial\' => \'شماره سریال شناسنامه\', \'birthday\' => \'تاریخ تولد\', \'issue_place\' => \'محل صدور\', \'gender\' => \'جنسیت\', \'marital_status\' => \'وضعیت تاهل\', \'postal_code\' => \'کد پستی\', \'home_phone\' => \'تلفن منزل\', \'fax\' => \'فکس\', \'province\' => \'استان\', \'city\' => \'شهر\', \'address\' => \'آدرس\', \'contact_type\' => \'نوع آدرس\', \'country\' => \'کشور\', \'company_name\' => \'نام محل کار\', \'phone\' => \'شماره ثابت\', \'account_type\' => \'نوع حساب\', \'bank\' => \'نام بانک\', \'branch_name\' => \'نام شعبه\', \'branch_code\' => \'کد شعبه\', \'branch_city\' => \'شهر محل شعبه\', \'account_number\' => \'شماره حساب\', \'owner_name\' => \'نام دارنده حساب\', \'iban\' => \'شماره شبا\', \'document_type\' => \'نوع مدرک\', \'file_name\' => \'فایل\', \'trading_code\' => \'کد سهامداری\', \'sejam_code\' => \'کد سجام\', \'old_bs\' => \'گزینه شناسنامه نو\', \'data\' => \'داده ها\', \'user_type\' => \'نوع کاربر\','; preg_match_all($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