Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
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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

/
/
gm

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

$re = '/(\$.*):\s*([^\s]+)\s*(?:!default);/m'; $str = '// Colors $pf-color-black-100: #fafafa !default; $pf-color-black-150: #f5f5f5 !default; $pf-color-black-200: #ededed !default; $pf-color-black-300: #d2d2d2 !default; $pf-color-black-400: #b8bbbe !default; $pf-color-black-500: #8a8d90 !default; $pf-color-black-600: #737679 !default; $pf-color-black-700: #4f5255 !default; $pf-color-black-800: #3c3f42 !default; $pf-color-black-850: #212427 !default; $pf-color-black-900: #151515 !default; $pf-color-black-1000: #030303 !default; $pf-color-blue-50: #def3ff !default; $pf-color-blue-100: #bee1f4 !default; $pf-color-blue-200: #73bcf7 !default; $pf-color-blue-300: #2b9af3 !default; $pf-color-blue-400: #06c !default; $pf-color-blue-500: #004080 !default; $pf-color-blue-600: #004368 !default; $pf-color-blue-700: #002235 !default; $pf-color-cyan-100: #a2d9d9 !default; $pf-color-cyan-200: #73c5c5 !default; $pf-color-cyan-300: #009596 !default; $pf-color-cyan-400: #005f60 !default; $pf-color-cyan-500: #003737 !default; $pf-color-cyan-600: #003d44 !default; $pf-color-cyan-700: #001f22 !default; $pf-color-gold-100: #f9e0a2 !default; $pf-color-gold-200: #f6d173 !default; $pf-color-gold-300: #f4c145 !default; $pf-color-gold-400: #f0ab00 !default; $pf-color-gold-500: #c58c00 !default; $pf-color-gold-600: #795600 !default; $pf-color-gold-700: #3d2c00 !default; $pf-color-green-100: #bde5b8 !default; $pf-color-green-200: #95d58e !default; $pf-color-green-300: #6ec664 !default; $pf-color-green-400: #5ba352 !default; $pf-color-green-500: #467f40 !default; $pf-color-green-600: #1e4f18 !default; $pf-color-green-700: #0f280d !default; $pf-color-light-blue-100: #beedf9 !default; $pf-color-light-blue-200: #7cdbf3 !default; $pf-color-light-blue-300: #35caed !default; $pf-color-light-blue-400: #00b9e4 !default; $pf-color-light-blue-500: #008bad !default; $pf-color-light-blue-600: #005c73 !default; $pf-color-light-blue-700: #002d39 !default; $pf-color-light-green-100: #e4f5bc !default; $pf-color-light-green-200: #c8eb79 !default; $pf-color-light-green-300: #ace12e !default; $pf-color-light-green-400: #92d400 !default; $pf-color-light-green-500: #6ca100 !default; $pf-color-light-green-600: #486b00 !default; $pf-color-light-green-700: #253600 !default; $pf-color-orange-100: #f4b678 !default; $pf-color-orange-200: #ef9234 !default; $pf-color-orange-300: #ec7a08 !default; $pf-color-orange-400: #c46100 !default; $pf-color-orange-500: #8f4700 !default; $pf-color-orange-600: #773d00 !default; $pf-color-orange-700: #3b1f00 !default; $pf-color-purple-100: #cbc1ff !default; $pf-color-purple-200: #b2a3ff !default; $pf-color-purple-300: #a18fff !default; $pf-color-purple-400: #8476d1 !default; $pf-color-purple-500: #6753ac !default; $pf-color-purple-600: #40199a !default; $pf-color-purple-700: #1f0066 !default; $pf-color-red-100: #c9190b !default; $pf-color-red-200: #a30000 !default; $pf-color-red-300: #7d1007 !default; $pf-color-red-400: #470000 !default; $pf-color-red-500: #2c0000 !default; $pf-color-white: #fff !default; '; preg_match_all($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