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  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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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
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$re = '/<item (.*)(Misc\/)(\d*)_(\w*)_(\d*)(.*)(\w*) id="([^*])(\d*)(.+)_(\d+)(\w*)(.*")(.*=")(\w*)(.*)" \/>/i'; $str = '<item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_001.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_001.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_001.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_001.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_002.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_002.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_003.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_003.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_004.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_004.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_005.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_005.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_006.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_006.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_007.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_007.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_008.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_008.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_009.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_009.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_010.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_010.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_011.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_011.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_012.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_012.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_013.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_013.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_014.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_014.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_015.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_015.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_016.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_016.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_017.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_017.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_018.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_018.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_019.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_019.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_020.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_020.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_021.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_021.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_022.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_022.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_023.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_023.smil" media-type="text/plain" /> <item href="Misc/9781620025420_epub3_024.smil" id="x9781620025420_epub3_024.smil" media-type="text/plain" />'; $subst = "<item \1\2\3\4_\5.\6 id=\"\7\8\9_\10\11\12\13\14\15\16\17"; $result = preg_replace($re, $subst, $str); echo "The result of the substitution is ".$result;

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