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PHP » String » Regular Expressions 
Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE)
 
\w represents a "word" character and is equivalent to the expression [A-Za-z0-9].
    
    \W represents the opposite of \w and is equivalent to [^A-Za-z0-9].
    
    \s represents a whitespace character.
    
    \S represents a nonwhitespace character.
    
    \d represents a digit and is equivalent to [0-9].
    
    \D represents a nondigit character and is equivalent to [^0-9].
    
    \n represents a newline character.
    
    \r represents a return character.
    
    \t represents a tab character.
  
  
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17. Define a pattern and use parentheses to match individual elements within it
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19. Greedy and non-greedy matching
20. Greedy versus nongreedy matching
21. Grouping captured subpatterns
22. Validating Pascal Case Names
23. Validating U.S. Currency
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27. POSIX Regular Expressions Character Classes
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31. Pattern matches:
32. Pattern match extenders:
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