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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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uxmg

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$re = '/(?(DEFINE) (?<protocol> (?<=^|[^a-z]) [a-z]+? : ) (?<domain> (?:[a-z\-]+\.)+[a-z\-]+ ) (?<ip> (?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?) ) (?<port> (?<!\s):\d+(?=\/|$|\s)) (?<pathquery>[A-Za-z\d\!\*\(\)\;\:\@\&\=\+\$\,\/\?\#\[\]\%\{\}\|\\\\\^\`\~]+) (?<url> (?&protocol) (?: (?:\/\/) (?: (?&domain) | (?&ip) ) (?&port)? )? (?&pathquery)) ) (?&url)/uxm'; $str = 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A#CITEREFSimpsonWeiner1989里面找 以上URL 下载地址magnet:?xt=urn:btih:65F16B126D8A656E4FC825DE204EBFAF04B070FC里面找 以上URL magnet: net: 以下URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A#CITEREFSimpsonWeiner1989里面找 以上URL http://192.168.1.1/里面找 \'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/////#CITEREFSimpsonWeiner1989\' http://192.168.1.1:80/ 里面找 以下URL https://google.com/search?q=%E5%9F%9F%E5%90%8D#newwindow=1&q=%E5%9F%9F%E5%90%8D+%E5%AD%97%E7%AC%A6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A#CITEREFSimpsonWeiner1989 magnet:?xt=urn:btih:65F16B126D8A656E4FC825DE204EBFAF04B070FC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A#CITEREFSimpsonWeiner1989 http://192.168.1.1/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/////#CITEREFSimpsonWeiner1989 http://192.168.1.1:80/ https://google.com/search?q=%E5%9F%9F%E5%90%8D#newwindow=1&q=%E5%9F%9F%E5%90%8D+%E5%AD%97%E7%AC%A6 '; preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0); // Print the entire match result var_dump($matches);

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