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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • 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
No Match

r"
"

Test String

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$re = '/(?P<date>\S{3}\s\d{1,3}\s\d{2}\:\d{2}\:\d{2})\s(?P<device>\S+)\s\S\=(?P<src>\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})\:\s\S\=\"(?P<user>.*?)\"\s\S\=\d+\s\S\=\S\s\S\=\d+\s\S\=\d+\s\S+\=\d\s\S{1,3}\=.*?type=\".*?\"\s.*?meth=(?P<type>\S+)\s\S+\=\"(?P<url>.*?)\"\s\S{2}\=\"(?P<agent>.*?)\"\s\S{1,3}\=\"(?P<url2>.*?)dom\=\"(?P<domain>.*?)\".*?target_ip\=\"(?P<dest>\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})\".*/'; $str = 'Oct 18 06:27:03 WS2000.wnins.com h=172.16.20.74: u="WNINS\\\\rehetzel" s=200 X=+ t=1445149621 T=44767 Ts=0 act=1 cat="0x2200000008" app="-" rsn=- threat="-" type="image/jpeg" ctype="image/jpeg" sav-ev=- sav-dv=- uri-dv=- cache=- in=471 out=990 meth=GET ref="http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/the-enterprise-cloud/how-do-i-assign-permissions-to-users-to-see-sql-agent-jobs/" ua="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.99 Safari/537.36" req="GET http://d.pzkysq.pink/5ET3nslK.jpg?z=715211411411 HTTP/1.1" dom="pzkysq.pink" filetype="-" rule="0" filesize=518 axtime=0.000455 fttime=0.000043 scantime=- src_cat="0x2000000008" labs_cat="0x2000000008" dcat_prox="-" target_ip="204.93.43.48" labs_rule_id="0" reqtime=0.000 adtime=0.000000 ftbypass=- os=Windows authn=17 auth_by=ntlm dnstime=0.000009 quotatime=-'; $subst = ""; $result = preg_replace($re, $subst, $str, 1); echo "The result of the substitution is ".$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