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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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$re = '/<EventTypeCode csd-code=\"(?<myEventTypeCode>PPQ-1)\".+?<ActiveParticipant UserID=\"(?<myUserID>\w{0,})\" UserName=\"(?<myUserName>[^\"]*)\" UserIsRequestor=\"true\".*?<RoleIDCode csd-code=\"(?<myRoleCode>\w{1,})\".+?<AuditSourceIdentification.+?AuditSourceID=\"(?<myAuditSourceID>.+?)\">.+?<ParticipantObjectIdentification ParticipantObjectID=\"(?<myParticipantObjectID>\d{1,})[^\"]+?2\.16\.756\.5\.30\.1\.127.+?\" ParticipantObjectTypeCode=\"1\" ParticipantObjectTypeCodeRole=\"1\">/s'; $str = 'type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1603788735.462:431935): arch=c000003e syscall=2 success=yes exit=34 a0=1d08f80 a1=80042 a2=1a4 a3=1d08f80 items=2 ppid=1 pid=19277 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="rhn_check" exe="/usr/bin/python2.7" subj=system_u:system_r:rpm_t:s0 key="audit_rules_etc_modification"'; preg_match_all($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