Regular Expressions 101

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  • All 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

/
/
gm

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

$re = '/:\D{8}\d{2}/m'; $str = '1:nlcbjduy14 <- I want regex to find this one 2:Peoples123 <- I don\'t want regex to find this one, as it has 3 digits. 3:sqourzyr17 <- I want regex to find this one 4:rdmaszgr94 <- I want regex to find this one 5:tnwiudic22 <- I want regex to find this one 6:zfcxmkrs21 <- I want regex to find this one 7:xrwhsgno55 <- I want regex to find this one 8:modtwtrr06 <- I want regex to find this one 9:People123 <- I don\'t want regex to find this one, as it is isn\'t 10 chars long and it consists of 3 digits. 10:aetmyqqh52 <- I want regex to find this one 11:Howtocodelikeapro12 <- I don\'t want regex to find this one, as it is isn\'t 10 chars long 12:netphvib58 <- I want regex to find this one 13:uwyiqhoj29 <- I want regex to find this one 14:RegexJustiIsntDoingItForMe 15:qyeiaecj27 <- I want regex to find this one 16:buttercake <- I don\'t want regex to find this one, as it doesn\'t end with 2 digits. 17:bcyiyjdm23 <- I want regex to find this one 18:Differings <- I don\'t want regex to find this one, as it doesn\'t end with 2 digits.'; preg_match_all($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