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

Processing...

Code Generator

Generated Code

$re = '/(?<prod_no>[\w.]*)µ&£(?<prod_label>[^µ&£]*)µ&£(?<prod_category>[^µ&£]*)µ&£(?<cnk>[^µ&£]*)µ&£(?<pzn>[^µ&£]*)µ&£(?<cip>[^µ&£]*)µ&£(?<ean>[^µ&£]*)µ&£(?<cefip>[^µ&£]*)µ&£(?<country>[^µ&£]*)µ&£$/m'; $str = 'F0002051µ&£ABIES NIGRA BOIR GRAN 4CH 80µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£Fµ&£ B000614172µ&£FADE OUT POT 60MLµ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£Bµ&£ F0011050µ&£ACONITUM NAPEL GRAN 4CH 80µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£Fµ&£ F0011073µ&£ACONITUM NAPEL GRAN 5CH 80µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£Fµ&£ F0011096µ&£ACONITUM NAPEL GRAN 7CH 80µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£Fµ&£ F0011104µ&£ACONITUM NAPEL GRAN 9CH 80µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£Fµ&£ F0011127µ&£ACONITUM NAPEL GRAN 15CH 80µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£Fµ&£ F0011133µ&£ACONITUM NAPEL GRAN 30CH 80µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£Fµ&£ F0011162µ&£ACONITUM NAPEL GLOB 7CH 1 DOSEµ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£Fµ&£ F4459818µ&£B/VARISMA1 SEDUCT AF C CANEL á1µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£Fµ&£ F4459824µ&£B/VARISMA1 SEDUCT AF N CANEL 1µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£Fµ&£ F4459830µ&£B/VARISMA1 SEDUCT AF C CANEL 2µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£Fµ&£ F4459847µ&£B/VARISMA1 SEDUCT AF N CANEL 2µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£Fµ&£ F4459853µ&£B/VARISMA1 SEDUCT AF C CANEL 3µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£Fµ&£ F4459876µ&£B/VARISMA1 SEDUCT AF N CANEL 3µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£µ&£Fµ&£ '; $subst = "$2µ&£$3µ&£$4µ&£$5µ&£$6µ&£$7µ&£$8µ&£$9µ&£\\N"; $result = preg_replace($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