Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
  • Group Constructs
  • Character Classes
  • Flags/Modifiers
  • 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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Test String

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Generated Code

$re = '/^["_A-Za-z0-9-\\\\+]+(\\\\.[_A-Za-z0-9-]+)*@(([^-][A-Za-z0-9-]+([A-Za-z0-9]+)*[.](ac|academy|accountants|ag|agency|airforce|am|as|army|asia|at|az|bargains|be|best|bike|biz|blue|bz|build|builders|business|buzz|boutique|cab|camera|careers|cc|cd|ch|cheap|click|club|cn|clothing|cool|co.at|co.gg|co.il|co.in|co.je|co.nz|co.tm|co.tt|co.uk|co.vi|co.za|codes|coffee|company|computer|construction|contractors|com|com.ag|com.az|com.cn|com.es|com.fr|com.gr|com.hr|com.ph|com.ro|com.tw|com.vn|cooking|country|cruises|de|dental|diamonds|diet|digital|directory|dk|domains|engineering|enterprises|email|equipment|es|estate|eu|exchange|farm|fi|fishing|flights|florist|fo|fr|gallery|gent|gg|gift|graphics|gs|guitars|guru|healthcare|help|hk|holdings|holiday|hosting|house|info|international|in|it|immo|io|je|jp|kg|kitchen|kiwi|koeln|land|li|lighting|limo|link|london|management|marketing|me|menu|mobi|ms|name|navy|net|net.ag|net.cn|net.nz|net.pl|net.ru|network|ninja|nl|no|nu|ooo|org|org.uk|ph|photo|photos|photography|pink|pizza|pl|plumbing|property|pt|recipes|red|rentals|restaurant|ro|rodeo|ru|se|sh|shoes|singles|solar|support|systems|tc|tattoo|tel|technology|tips|tm|to|today|top|tt|training|tv|us|vacations|ventures|vc|villas|vg|vodka|voyage|vu|ws|watch|wiki|zone))|([[][0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}[]])|([0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}))/'; $str = '1234567890@domain.comdsf'; preg_match($re, $str, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE, 0); // Print the entire match result var_dump($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