PHP Regular Expression Tester
POSIX Syntax
Escaping
\- special characters to literal and literal characters to special
Quantifiers
?- matches zero or one times*- matches zero or more times+- matches one or more times{n}- matches n times{n, m}- matches at least n times, but not more than m times
Anchors
^- matches at the start of the line$- matches at the end of the line
PCRE Syntax
Character Escapes
\s- matches whitespace\S- matches anything but a whitespace\f- matches a form-feed\n- matches a linefeed\r- matches a carriage return\t- matches a horizontal tab\v- matches vertical tab\d- matches any digit\D- matches anything except digit\w- matches any alphanumeric character including the underscore. Equivalent to [A-Za-z0-9_]\W- matches any non-word character. Equivalent to [^A-Za-z0-9_]
Others
.- matches any character except a newline
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