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Regular Expression<\/h1>\n
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Regular Expression, commonly known as “regex” or “RegExp”, are specially formatted text strings used to find patterns in text. Regular expressions are one of the most powerful tools available today for effective and efficient text processing and manipulations. For example, it can be used to verify whether the format of data i.e. name, email, phone number, etc. entered by the user was correct or not, find or replace matching string within text content, and so on.<\/p>\n

PHP (version 5.3 and above) supports Perl-style regular expressions via\u00a0its preg_ family of functions. Why Perl style regular expressions? Because Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) was the first mainstream programming language that provided integrated support for regular expressions and it is well known for its strong support of regular expressions and its extraordinary text processing and manipulation capabilities.<\/p>\n

Let’s begin with a brief overview of the commonly used PHP’s built-in pattern-matching functions before delving deep into the world of regular expressions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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preg_match()<\/td>\nPerform a regular expression match.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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preg_match_all()<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Perform a global regular expression match.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
preg_replace()<\/td>\nPerform a regular expression search and replace.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
preg_grep()<\/td>\nReturns the elements of the input array that matched the pattern.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
preg_split()<\/td>\nSplits up a string into substrings using a regular expression.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
preg_quote()<\/td>\nQuote regular expression characters found within a string.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Note: The PHP preg_match() function stops searching after it finds the first match, whereas the preg_match_all() function continues searching until the end of the string and finds all possible matches instead of stopping at the first match.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Regular Expression Syntax<\/h2>\n

Regular expression syntax includes the use of special characters (do not confuse with the HTML special characters). The characters that are given special meaning within a regular expression, are:.*?+[](){}^$|\\. You will need to backslash these characters whenever you want to use them literally. For example, if you want to match “.”, you’d have to write \\.. All other characters automatically assume their literal meanings.<\/p>\n

The following sections describe the various options available for formulating patterns:<\/p>\n

Character Classes<\/h2>\n

Square brackets surrounding a pattern of characters are called a character class e.g. [abc]. A character class always matches a single character out of a list of specified characters that means the expression [abc] matches only a, b or c character.<\/p>\n

Negated character classes can also be defined that match any character except those contained within the brackets. A negated character class is defined by placing a caret (^) symbol immediately after the opening bracket, like this [^abc].<\/p>\n

You can also define a range of characters by using the hyphen (-) character inside a character class, like [0-9]. Let’s look at some examples of character classes:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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[abc]<\/td>\nMatches any one of the characters a, b, or c.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Matches any one character other than a, b, or c.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Matches any one character from lowercase a to lowercase z.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Matches any one character from uppercase a to uppercase z.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

[a-Z]<\/td>\nMatches any one character from lowercase a to uppercase Z.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[0-9]<\/td>\nMatches a single digit between 0 and 9.<\/p>\n
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[a-Z]<\/td>\nMatches any one character from lowercase a to uppercase Z.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Matches a single character between a and z or between 0 and 9.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The following example will show you how to find whether a pattern exists in a string or not using the regular expression and PHP preg_match() function:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Example:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Similarly, you can use the preg_match_all() function to find all matches within a string:<\/p>\n
Example:<\/p>\n
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Predefined Character Classes<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Some character classes such as digits, letters, and whitespaces are used so frequently that there are shortcut names for them. The following table lists those predefined character classes:<\/p>\n
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.<\/td>\nMatches any single character except newline \\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\/d<\/td>\nmatches any digit character. Same as [0-9]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\/D<\/td>\nMatches any non-digit character. Same as [^0-9]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\/s<\/td>\nMatches any whitespace character (space, tab, newline or carriage return character). Same as [\/t\/n]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\/s<\/td>\nMatches any non-whitespace character. Same as [^\/t\/n\/r]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\/w<\/td>\nMatches any word character (definned as a to z, A to Z,0 to 9, and the underscore). Same as [a-zA-Z_9]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Matches any non-word character. Same a [^a-zA-Z_0-9]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Repetition Quantifiers<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In the previous section, we’ve learned how to match a single character in a variety of fashions. But what if you want to match on more than one character? For example, let’s say you want to find out words containing one or more instances of the letter p, or words containing at least two p’s, and so on. This is where quantifiers come into play. With quantifiers, you can specify how many times a character in a regular expression should match.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The following table lists the various ways to quantify a particular pattern:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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p+<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Matches one or more occurrences of the letter p.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Matches zero or more occurrences of the letter p.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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p{2,}<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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The regular expression in the following example will split the string at the comma, sequence of commas, whitespace, or a combination thereof using the\u00a0PHP preg_split() function:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Example:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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There are certain situations where you want to match at the beginning or end of a line, word, or string. To do this you can use anchors. Two common anchors are caret (^) which represents the start of the string, and the dollar ($) sign which represents the end of the string.<\/p>\n
The regular expression in the following example will display only those names from the names array which start with the letter “J” using the\u00a0PHP preg_grep() function:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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^p<\/td>\nMatches the letter p at the beginning of a line.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
p$<\/td>\nMatches the letter p at the end of a line.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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The regular expression in the following example will display only those names from the names array which start with the letter “J” using the\u00a0PHP preg_grep() function:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A pattern modifier allows you to control the way a pattern match is handled. Pattern modifiers are placed directly after the regular expression, for example, if you want to search for a pattern in a case-insensitive manner, you can use
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Makes the match case-insensitive manner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Changes the behavior of ^ and $ to match against a newline boundary (i.e. start or end of each line within a multiline string), instead of a string boundary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Perform a global match i.e. finds all occurrences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Changes the behavior of . (dot) to match all characters, including newlines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Allows you to use whitespace and comments within a regular expression for clarity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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The following example will show you how to perform a global case-insensitive search using the i modifier and the PHP preg_match_all() function.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Similarly, the following example shows how to match at the beginning of every line in a multi-line string using ^ anchor and m modifier with\u00a0PHP preg_match_all() function.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Word Boundaries<\/h2>\n
A word boundary character ( \\b) helps you search for the words that begin and\/or end with a pattern. For example, the regexp \/\\bcar\/ matches the words beginning with the pattern car, and would match cart, carrot, or cartoon, but would not match oscar.<\/p>\n
Similarly, the regexp \/car\\b\/ matches the words ending with the pattern car, and would match scar, oscar, or supercar, but would not match cart. Likewise,
\nthe \/\\bcar\\b\/ matches the words beginning and ending with the pattern car and would match only the word car.<\/p>\n
The following example will highlight the words beginning with the car in bold:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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