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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s

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$re = '/<ul class=\"itens\"><li class=\".*?\">(.*?)<\/li><\/ul>/s'; $str = '<div class="boxAssistir"><h2 class="titulo">Selecione o Player desejado para Assistir</h2><ul class="itens"><li class="video1"><div class="icon"><div class="symbol"></div></div>OpenLoad</li><li class="video2"><div class="icon"><div class="symbol"></div></div>Ok</li><li class="video3"><div class="icon"><div class="symbol"></div></div>Streamin</li><li class="video4"><div class="icon"><div class="symbol"></div></div>Vidzi</li></ul><ul class="videos"><li class="video1-code"><iframe src="https://openload.co/embed/mGJOi4WB9uU/" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" width="538" height="408" allowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true"></iframe></li><li class="video2-code"><iframe width="538" height="408" data-src="http://ok.ru/videoembed/83266570810" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></li><li class="video3-code"><iframe data-src="http://streamin.to/embed-d0i8to43pywp-538x408.html" width="538" height="408" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></li><li class="video4-code"><iframe data-src="http://vidzi.tv/embed-n6ssttynwolm-538x408.html" width="538" height="408" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></li></ul></div>'; preg_match($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