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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
No Match

r"
"
gim

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Generated Code

$re = '/: ([^\s]+)(?:[^\[]+)?\[([^:/]+[:/][^\s]+)(?:\s*l.[\d]+)?\] - ([a-f0-9]{24})?(?: - )?(.+)$/im'; $str = 'Nov 21 15:55:59 dasyure uwsgi.rtemail: INFO 18695 - [rtemail_base:process_m5e l.940] - 546f527f4b295f0ecb9a78b8 - ruid=ff6d4e50-dd2d-40c5-978c-0d8726674e4a m5e=66ae77250da162719d907a8d71bcceec from=mongodb ms=1 status=continue Nov 21 15:55:59 dasyure uwsgi.rtemail: INFO mule:18695 - [rtemail:process_in_exclusion l.355] - 546f527f4b295f0ecb9a78b8 - tagid=6545389 in_exclusion=false status=continue Nov 21 15:56:09 dasyure uwsgi.rtemail: DEBUG 18695 - [idents_message:__init__ l.22] - 546f527f4b295f0ecb9a78b8 - init_json json={\'ruid\': UUID(\'ff6d4e50-dd2d-40c5-978c-0d8726674e4a\'), \'url\': u\'http://www.rueducommerce.fr/Ordinateurs/Ordinateur-Portable/Ordinateur-Portable-Grand-Public/APPLE/4920409-MacBook-Air-13-MD760F-B.htm#moid:MO-76BD5M31349632\', \'ip\': 127000000001, \'exclu\': False, \'params\': {\'idproduit\': [u\'RSYS:30:4920409\']}, \'message\': {\'google_cver\': None, \'accept_cookies\': True, \'ident\': \'6545389_ff6d4e50-dd2d-40c5-978c-0d8726674e4a_66ae77250da162719d907a8d71bcceec\', \'ggruid\': 3658, \'r1\': (False, UUID(\'ff6d4e50-dd2d-40c5-978c-0d8726674e4a\'), False), \'r3\': (False, UUID(\'ff6d4e50-dd2d-40c5-978c-0d8726674e4a\'), False), \'eulerian_uid\': None, \'sync\': [], \'tagid\': 6545389, \'utcnow\': datetime.datetime(2014, 11, 21, 14, 55, 59, tzinfo=<bson.tz_util.FixedOffset object at 0x7f3edfa707d0>), \'new_cookie\': False, \'adnxs_uid\': None, \'action\': 3, \'google_gid\': None, \'ck1add\': {}, \'now\': datetime.datetime(2014, 11, 21, 15, 55, 59, 329577), \'cpu\': {\'stats\': False, \'pixel\': False, \'syncJS\': False, \'syncJarM5e\': False}}, \'_id\': ObjectId(\'546f527f4b295f0ecb9a78b8\'), \'ua\': u\'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.111 Safari/537.36\'} Nov 21 15:56:09 dasyure uwsgi.rtemail: INFO 18695 - [rtemail_base_client:process_is_expired l.90] - 546f527f4b295f0ecb9a78b8 - expired=false status=continue'; preg_match_all($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