Regular Expressions 101

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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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/
/
gm

Test String

Substitution

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$re = '/\s+(?:ST|DR|AVE|TRL|BLVD|LN|CT|RD|CV|CMNS|CRK|XING|SQ|CRST|LNDG|LOOP|OVAL|ROW|TER|TRCE)\b.*/m'; $str = '505 BLACKBERRY 135 BEARDSLEY ST 15 HUNT CLUB DR 1223 STATE ROUTE 103 455 STATE RTE 43 206 COUNTY RD 4710 17 E 250TH ST 158 BALLINGER AVE SE 150 BALLINGER AVE S 18 BALLINGER AVE T 1272 ORANGE SUN TRL 291 S MORELAND BLVD 615 RUSSET WOOD LN 1165 MORROCCO CT 1321 S PKWY DR 250 COUNTY RD 25A S 22 SANSTONE RIDGE WAY 55070 MENDOZA TRL 1609 HUNTSMERE AVE DOWN 243 MISTY WOODS CV S 2292 BAYBERRY CMNS 16 KILDEER CRK 40 BEDFORD XING 4 LEXINGTON SQ 113 SPARROWS CRST 1082 MATHOM LNDG 1050 WILLOW RIDGE LOOP 660 REDTOP LOOP 8 MOUNT ROYAL LOOP 805 SIERRA OVAL 3012 NANTUCKET ROW 6 WOODROW AVE 943 DARROW PARK DR 743 BELVEDERE TER 189 WINCHESTER RD 19 WHITE OAK TRCE 890 BLACKJACK RD EXT 767 N EXCALIBUR DR 109 VININGS FOREST LN SE 508 E 141ST ST 85 ROSE LN ST SW'; $subst = ""; $result = preg_replace($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