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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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$re = '/\b1\b((?:(?!\b1\b).)*?) \b2\b((?:(?!\b2\b).)*?) \b3\b((?:(?!\b3\b).)*?) \b4\b((?:(?!\b4\b).)*?) \b5\b((?:(?!\b5\b).)*?) \b6\b((?:(?!\b6\b).)*?) \b7\b((?:(?!\b7\b).)*?) \b8\b((?:(?!\b8\b).)*?) \b9\b((?:(?!\b9\b).)*?) \b10\b((?:(?!\b10\b).)*?)/mxs'; $str = 'CHAPTER 1 1 He loves Mary, 2 and Mary loves him. 3 They have three kids and 12 chickens. 4 Their address is 1234 Applewood Dr. and 5 they\'ve lived there for 10 years. 6 In their 11th year in the house, 7 Mary and Greg planted 15 tulips, 8 12 rose bushes, and 9 three apple trees. 10 Everything they had burned to the ground. '; preg_match_all($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