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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

/
/
g

Test String

Substitution

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Code Generator

Generated Code

$re = '/\s(\w*)Command\.Register\((([\S]*,([^;\n\r])*)+)typeof\((.*)Values\)\);/'; $str = 'public static readonly SimpleCommand ReadTemperatureCommand = SimpleCommand.Register(ReadTemperatureCommandId, "ReadTemperature", "showtemp.py", "", 5, typeof(TemperatureListCommandResultProcessor), typeof(TemperatureListDeviceValues)); public static readonly SimpleCommand GetDataType1Command = SimpleCommand.Register( GetDataType1CommandTypeId, "GetData", "HttpClient2.py", @"""/data/ajax.txt?CAN=1&HASH=00200403&TYPE=1"" ""GET"" """"", 5, typeof(SunwaysSolarInverterDataType1CommandResultProcessor), typeof(SunwaysSolarInverterDeviceValues)); public static readonly ArgumentedCommand UpdateAsyncCommandsCommand = ArgumentedCommand.Register( UpdateAsyncCommandsCommandId, "UpdateAsyncCommands", "UpdateAsyncCommands.py", "", 5, UpdateAsyncCommandsCreateArguments, new[] { typeof(AsynchronousCommand[]) }, typeof(UpdateAsyncCommandsCommandResultProcessor), typeof(GridboxCommunicationObjectValues)); public static readonly SimpleDynamicObjectAttribute<bool> AsynchronousCommandsChangedProperty = SimpleDynamicObjectAttribute<bool>.Register("AsynchronousCommandsChanged", false, typeof(BusyGridObjectValues), false, false); public static readonly SimpleDynamicObjectAttribute<string> MailProperty = SimpleDynamicObjectAttribute<string>.Register("Mail", typeof(DefaultUserValues)); public static readonly ProtectedSimpleDynamicObjectAttribute<int> PasswordStorageMethodVersionProperty = ProtectedSimpleDynamicObjectAttribute<int>.Register("PasswordStorageMethodVersion", 2, typeof(DefaultUserValues)); public static readonly ListSetDynamicObjectAttribute<string> LocalIpNetworksProperty = ListSetDynamicObjectAttribute<string>.Register("LocalIpNetworks", typeof(GridboxCommunicationObjectValues)); public static readonly DictionaryDynamicObjectAttribute<Guid, GridObjectTypeContentFilter> ContentFiltersProperty = DictionaryDynamicObjectAttribute<Guid, GridObjectTypeContentFilter>.Register("ContentFilters", typeof(DefaultContentFilterValues)); public static readonly StrongGridObjectReference ContentFilterListContentFilterIdProperty = StrongGridObjectReference.Register("ContentFilterListContentFilterId", new Guid("ce06d088-1b5e-4cab-98d2-b0fd63bc0d5b"), typeof(ContentFilterValues)); public static readonly GridObjectReference ContentFilterListContentFilterIdProperty = GridObjectReference.Register("ContentFilterListContentFilterId", new Guid("ce06d088-1b5e-4cab-98d2-b0fd63bc0d5b"), typeof(ContentFilterValues)); public static readonly GridObjectReference ContentFilterListContentFilterIdProperty = GridObjectReference.Register("ContentFilterListContentFilterId", new Guid("ce06d088-1b5e-4cab-98d2-b0fd63bc0d5b"), typeof(ContentFilterValues)); public static readonly GridObjectReferenceList PermissionIdsProperty = GridObjectReferenceList.Register("PermissionIds", typeof(DefaultRoleValues));'; $subst = "GridObjectModel.Register$1Reference$2($3, $4TypeIdString);"; $result = preg_replace($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