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  • Common 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
No Match

r"
"
g

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$re = '/(http|ftp|https):\/\/([\w\-_]+(?:(?:\.[\w\-_]+)+))([\w\-\.,@?^=%&amp;:/~\+#]*[\w\-\@?^=%&amp;/~\+#])?/'; $str = 'http://myip.ms/browse/ip_ranges/1/ownerID/224218/ownerID_A/1/sort/1/asc/1#ip_ranges_tbl_top <script src="mraid.js"></script> <img src="data:image/png,mone" style="display: none" onerror=" (function(self) { setTimeout(function() { var creative = \'GetRich\'; var suffix = \'\'; var country = \'om\'; var campaignId = 16492; var mediatorUrl = \'https://tags.mli.me\'; // --- ---- var params={scriptId:\'mone-tag-script-1\',tagTimestamp: new Date().getTime(), tagId:(Math.floor(Math.random() * 10000))}; var req = document.createElement(\'script\'); req.src = mediatorUrl + \'/mediator/\' + country + \'/_/_/\' + creative + \'/452/\' + campaignId + \'?\'; req.id =\'mone-tag-script-1\'; params.requestId = \'%{${RequestID}}%\'; params.placement = \'%{${Placement}}%\'; params.gclid = \'%{${GoogleUserID}}%\'; if(!!suffix) params[\'x-suffix\'] = suffix; for (var k in params) { req.src += \'&amp;\' + encodeURIComponent(k) + \'=\' + encodeURIComponent(params[k]); } if (!window.moneTags) window.moneTags = {}; if (!window.moneTags.beacons) window.moneTags.beacons = {}; window.moneTags.beacons[params.tagId] = {\'transition\':[\'%%CLICK_URL_ESC%%\']}; document.head.appendChild(req); }, 2000); })(this); "/> <img src="https://imp.mli.me/api/track/impression?RequestID=%{${RequestID}}%&CreativeID=%{${CreativeID}}%&WinningPrice=%%WINNING_PRICE%%" width="1" height="1">'; 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