In this video tutorial we learn the basics of PHP regular expressions. However, knowing even these regex basics will let you match most of online content. Make sure to watch next video, which will be a practical example of using regular expressions to parse out movie information from imdb.com web site.
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Informative. Really like your tutorials.
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thanks for the video bro
||||| this character is PIPE LINE but in regex is OR
Awesome tutorial ..
Pipe character
Really useful. Thank you.
Where is the next video ?
Great video, thank you!! Since I am not a programmer but have used RegEx in Ms Word: what common programs support RegEx?
Hello! The description links appear to be broken! Can you check em? Thanks! Great Tutorial and pretty website!
Thank you for this great video!
Helped a lot with understanding.
Guys, how to match for Non English Unicode characters ?
This deserves more likes and more views.
Reg Expressions can be a pain to beginners and stack overflow cant explain like you do.
Awesome man.
Clean and understandable thanks for the effort. I loved it.
awesome tutorial in no time I had the basics of regex thanks Clever Techie
Thanks for the cheat sheet!
Thanks for the cheat sheet. & the video of course.
Nice cheat sheet background image, is it a mirror of your room with your cat?
very useful. Thank you.
well explained !!!
how did you learn php & web development
Test String:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
0123456789 _+-.,!@#$%^&*();/|<>“‘
Hello World!
12345 -98.7 3.131 .6180 9,000 +42
555.123.4567 +1-(800)-555-2468
foo@demo.net bar.ba@test.co.uk
http://www.demo.com http://foo.co.uk
PG-13
http://regexr.com/foo.html?q=bar
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