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  • Common Tokens
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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
No Match

/
/
iug

Test String

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Generated Code

$re = '/([\w]+)\{([\w]+)\:([0-9.]+)\}/iu'; $str = 'в{в:30948.70}нормальных{нормальный:110.70}условиях{условие:364.20}данное{данный:0.00}соединение{соединение:56.60}находится{находиться:339.00}в{в:30948.70}газообразном{газообразный:1.70}состоянии{состояние:290.10}не{не:17692.40}имеет{иметь:895.40}цвета{цвет:176.40}и{и:35302.69}запаха{запах:92.80}однако{однако:516.29}обладает{обладать:103.80}кисловатым{кисловатый:0.80}вкусом{вкус:77.50}растворяется{растворяться:7.10}в{в:30948.70}воде{вода:480.00}образуя{образовывать:35.29}при{при:1538.30}этом{это:5477.60}угольную{угольный:13.80}карбонатную{карбонатный:1.80}кислоту{кислота:22.90}'; preg_match_all($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