<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Examples</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="pcre.constants.html">Predefined Constants</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="pcre.pattern.html">PCRE Patterns</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.pcre.html">PCRE</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="pcre.examples" class="appendix"> <h1>Examples</h1> <p class="para"> <div class="example" id="example-4780"> <p><strong>Example #1 Examples of valid patterns</strong></p> <ul class="itemizedlist"> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara"><em>/<\/\w+>/</em></span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara"><em>|(\d{3})-\d+|Sm</em></span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara"><em>/^(?i)php[34]/</em></span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara"><em>{^\s+(\s+)?$}</em></span></li> </ul> </div> </p> <p class="para"> <div class="example" id="example-4781"> <p><strong>Example #2 Examples of invalid patterns</strong></p> <ul class="itemizedlist"> <li class="listitem"> <span class="simpara"> <em>/href='(.*)'</em> - missing ending delimiter </span> </li> <li class="listitem"> <span class="simpara"> <em>/\w+\s*\w+/J</em> - unknown modifier 'J' </span> </li> <li class="listitem"> <span class="simpara"> <em>1-\d3-\d3-\d4|</em> - missing starting delimiter </span> </li> </ul> </div> </p> </div> <hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="pcre.constants.html">Predefined Constants</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="pcre.pattern.html">PCRE Patterns</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.pcre.html">PCRE</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>