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My PHP Regex Cheat Sheet

Regex101 is a website for testing, debugging, and learning regular expressions. It provides a simple interface for users to test regular expressions on sample text and see step-by-step explanations of matches. The site also includes documentation on common regex patterns and modifiers that can be used to match characters, strings, whitespace, numbers, and other patterns in text. Users can explore regex syntax and build complex patterns to match multiple groups through repetition, alternation, capturing, and other advanced regex features.

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My PHP Regex Cheat Sheet

Regex101 is a website for testing, debugging, and learning regular expressions. It provides a simple interface for users to test regular expressions on sample text and see step-by-step explanations of matches. The site also includes documentation on common regex patterns and modifiers that can be used to match characters, strings, whitespace, numbers, and other patterns in text. Users can explore regex syntax and build complex patterns to match multiple groups through repetition, alternation, capturing, and other advanced regex features.

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Delimiter

any character to start and end it, except \s or \

Meta Characters

^ Marks the start of a string


$ Marks the end of a string
| Boolean OR
\s Any white-space character [\r\n\t\f ]
\w Any alpha numeric character plus underscore. Equals to [A-Za-z0-9_]
\W Any non alpha numeric characters
\s ny white-space character
\S Any non white-space character
\d Any digits. Equals to [0-9]
\D Any non digits. Equals to [^0-9]

grouping:

() Group elements
(?!ab|cd).* Group of elements except ab or cd (this is negative lookahead)

[abc] Item in range (a,b or c)


[^abc] NOT in range (every character except a,b or c)

a{2} Exactly two of a


a{,5} Up to five of a
a{5,10} Between five to ten of a

(?:([^.]+))? optional group

named match:

$test = "yet another test";


preg_match( '/(?P<word>t[^s]+)/', $test, $matches );
var_dump( $matches['word'] );

repetition:

? 0 | 1
+ 1 | inf
* 0 | inf

. Matches any single character except new line


a* Zero or more of a
.* Zero or more of any character
a? Zero or one a characters ( equals to a{0,1} )
.? Zero or one of any character
a+ One or more of a
.+ One or more of any char
*? Quantifier - repeats previous token zero to infinite times
npr: .*? - any char zero to infinite times
.* matches any character [unicode]
Quantifier: * Between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible,
giving back as needed [GREEDY]
.*? matches any character [unicode]
Quantifier: *? Between zero and unlimited times, AS FEW TIMES AS POSSIBLE,
expanding as needed [LAZY]

matchings:

[^@~] bilo koji znak osim @~


[^@~]* niz bilo kojih znakova osim @~
([^@~]*) capture niz bilo kojih znakova osim @~
["\\\'\s+] Match a single character present in the list below
" a single character in the list " literally (case insensitive)
\\ matches the character \ literally
\' matches the character ' literally
\s match any white space character [\r\n\t\f ]
+ the literal character +

Escape characters - special regular expression characters are:


. \ + * ? [ ^ ] $ ( ) { } = ! < > | :

Modifiers
/.../uims
u Pattern is treated as UTF-8
x mogu se koristiti razmaci u patternu, bez da se match-aju (također i
comments #..., i newline, pa se može pisati jako lijep i pregledan regex)
i case insensitive
m multiline, ignores new line
s if included, the . character matches all characters, including newline

=================
preg_match
=================

- traži postoji li match u subject-u


- vraća vrijednosti:
1 found
0 not found
false error

- ie1:
if ( preg_match( $pattern, $subject ) == 1 ) { ... }

- ie2:
if ( preg_match( $pattern, $subject, $matches ) == 1 ) { ... }

ako je zadan $matches, napuni sa vrijednostima matcheva ovako:


echo( "Entire match: ${matches[0]}" );
echo( "1. group: ${matches[1]}" );
echo( "2. group: ${matches[2]}" );
echo( "3. group: ${matches[3]}" );

=================
preg_split
=================
- explodira u array

- ie.
$txt = ',,text,other,,end.';
$words_Also_Empty_Arr = preg_split( '/,/', $txt, -1);
$words_Without_Empty_Arr = preg_split( '/,/', $txt, -1,
PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY );

- PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY - ne vraća prazne

=================
preg_grep
=================
- radi regex nad elementima arraya i vraća array sa tim elementima

- ie.
$foods = array("pasta", "steak", "fish", "potatoes");
$p_foods_Arr = preg_grep("/p(\w+)/", $foods);
$non_p_foods_Arr = preg_grep("/p(\w+)/", $foods, PREG_GREP_INVERT);

=================
preg_quote
=================
- escapes every regex character
- ie.
$punctuation = preg_quote( "().-" );
echo $punctuation; // \(\)\.-.

=================
preg_replace
=================
- regex search and replace

// pattern is a little different -- just specifies the search part, not


before and after
$pattern = '|(/wp-content/uploads/\d{4}/\d{2}/)\d{8}/|';
$replace = '$1'; // replace with the first match

$content_updated = null;
$content_updated = preg_replace( $pattern, $replace, $content );
if ( $content_updated && $content !== $content_updated ) {
...
}

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