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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
  • Match everything enclosed
    (?:...)
  • Capture everything enclosed
    (...)
  • 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

/
/

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

$re = '/^\+?([87](?!95[4-79]|99[08]|907|94[^0]|336|986)([348]\d|9[0-6789]|7[0247])\d{8}|[1246]\d{9,13}|68\d{7}|5[1-46-9]\d{8,12}|55[1-9]\d{9}|55[12]19\d{8}|500[56]\d{4}|5016\d{6}|5068\d{7}|502[45]\d{7}|5037\d{7}|50[4567]\d{8}|50855\d{4}|509[34]\d{7}|376\d{6}|855\d{8}|856\d{10}|85[0-4789]\d{8,10}|8[68]\d{10,11}|8[14]\d{10}|82\d{9,10}|852\d{8}|90\d{10}|96(0[79]|17[01]|13)\d{6}|96[23]\d{9}|964\d{10}|96(5[69]|89)\d{7}|96(65|77)\d{8}|92[023]\d{9}|91[1879]\d{9}|9[34]7\d{8}|959\d{7}|989\d{9}|97\d{8,12}|99[^4568]\d{7,11}|994\d{9}|9955\d{8}|996[57]\d{8}|9989\d{8}|380[3-79]\d{8}|381\d{9}|385\d{8,9}|375[234]\d{8}|372\d{7,8}|37[0-4]\d{8}|37[6-9]\d{7,11}|30[69]\d{9}|34[67]\d{8}|3[12359]\d{8,12}|36\d{9}|38[1679]\d{8}|382\d{8,9}|46719\d{10})$/'; $str = ''; preg_match($re, $str, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE, 0); // Print the entire match result var_dump($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