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Im a beginner in PHP I just want to ask can someone explain to me this line of code.
(preg_match('/^\w{5,}$/', $username))
Thankyou in advance. :) Your answer is so much appreciated. :)
Your PHP match string is
/^\w{5,}$/
and a PHP match string is surrounded by / characters which are not part of the RegEx string itself.
According to the comments your problem is about understanding regular expressions, not PHP.
^ is the beginning of the line, correct
$ is the end of the line, correct
\w Any word character (letter, number, underscore)
a{5,} does mean 5 or more characters 'a'
Therefore: If there are 5 or more any word characters in the username the function returns a positive result.
Or even easier: A username needs to contain at least five any word characters.
Learn more about regular expressions and how they work. Some explanation can be found in this comment.
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I'm trying to do Regex code for product's code in VSCode's HTML. My product's code has the following conditions:
Required enter 6 characters
First 2 characters must be letter and uppercase
Next 4 characters must be numbers.
I have tried this regular expression and it doesn't work:
^[A-Z]{2}+\[0-9]{4}$
Your regex should be:
^[A-Z]{2}[0-9]{4}$
This corrects the escaping of your character class; that made it no longer a character class but a series of characters to match in the regex, ending with 4 ]s. The + also is not needed as the {2} is stating only 2 uppercase alpha characters are allowed.
You can also swap the [0-9] with \d which is the metacharacter for an integer. With PHP regexs you also need delimiters so something like:
/^[A-Z]{2}\d{4}$/
could be used in preg_match.
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I changed the Permalink on WP to get any strings after the path. I use the regex: "yourdomain.com/%postname%-(.*)/"
When I am checking: "yourdomain.com/%postname%-f46eb54b99ce3a9835ea7d63e075d434", it matches.
But when I check:
"yourdomain.com/%postname%-446eb54b99ce3a9835ea7d63e075d434" then it returns "yourdomain.com/%postname%-(.*)/446/".
I think (. *) Will fit in everything, regardless of letters or numbers. I appreciate anyone who can explain it to me.
You should escape all / and ., if you mean them as normal symbols. So, you'll have:
yourdomain\.com\/%postname%-(.*)\/
It must not match
yourdomain.com/%postname%-f46eb54b99ce3a9835ea7d63e075d434
or
yourdomain.com/%postname%-446eb54b99ce3a9835ea7d63e075d434
, because you regex demands / at the end. If it is not obligatory, put ? after the ending \/.
yourdomain\.com\/%postname%-(.*)\/?
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I am practicing for regular expressions.
I was trying to format numbers using PHP and regex. I want to add comma after each 3 digits like this 111222333444 to this format 111,222,333,444 or 11222333444 to 11,222,333,444 by using PHP and Regular expression.
I searched a lot but I could not find exact solution for this.
I know that there is function in php (number_format) to do this but I want to use Regular expression and PHP to do this because I am learning regex and practicing so I want to use regex and php only.
Here is a regex based solution:
$repl = preg_replace('/(?!^)(?=(?:\d{3})+$)/m', ',', $input);
RegEx Demo
Explanation:
(?!^) - Negative lookahead to make sure we are not at start of input
(?=(?:\d{3})+$) - Positive lookahead to make sure there 1 or more of 3 digit sets following current position
Replacement is just a literal comma
More explanation is available at linked demo
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Want a regular expression that matches only special characters and numericals..
Consider an example
$sting1 = '($001)';
$sting2 = '($001test)';
So only $string1 should match in this case and not the second one.
As second string has alphabets present in it, that should not match..
How about:
preg_match('/^\P{L}+$/u', $str);
Where \P{L} stands for any character that is not a letter.
Below is a PCRE regex which can match special characters, numericals and white space.
[^[:alpha:]]+
If you need to omit whitespaces then,
[^[:alpha:]\s]+
You can check out the demo here.
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Here I have regex, in which I want it to filter only word length >8 and <15 characters. I added
(?=.{8,14})b$
REGEX-http://regex101.com/r/sA5xL5
but it does not make any diff.
`^(?=.{8,14})b$\(?(?:(?:0(?:0|11)\)?[\s-]?\(?|\+)44\)?[\s-]?\(?(?:0\)?[\s-]?\(?)?|0)(?:\d{2}\)?[\s-]?\d{4}[\s-]?\d{4}|\d{3}\)?[\s-]?\d{3}[\s-]?\d{3,4}|\d{4}\)?[\s-]?(?:\d{5}|\d{3}[\s-]?\d{3})|\d{5}\)?[\s-]?\d{4,5}|8(?:00[\s-]?11[\s-]?11|45[\s-]?46[\s-]?4\d))(?:(?:[\s-]?(?:x|ext\.?\s?|\#)\d+)?)$^|^2(?:0[01378]|3[0189]|4[017]|8[0-46-9]|9[012])\d{7}|1(?:(?:1(?:3[0-48]|[46][0-4]|5[012789]|7[0-49]|8[01349])|21[0-7]|31[0-8]|[459]1\d|61[0-46-9]))\d{6}|1(?:2(?:0[024-9]|2[3-9]|3[3-79]|4[1-689]|[58][02-9]|6[0-4789]|7[013-9]|9\d)|3(?:0\d|[25][02-9]|3[02-579]|[468][0-46-9]|7[1235679]|9[24578])|4(?:0[03-9]|2[02-5789]|[37]\d|4[02-69]|5[0-8]|[69][0-79]|8[0-5789])|5(?:0[1235-9]|2[024-9]|3[0145689]|4[02-9]|5[03-9]|6\d|7[0-35-9]|8[0-468]|9[0-5789])|6(?:0[034689]|2[0-689]|[38][013-9]|4[1-467]|5[0-69]|6[13-9]|7[0-8]|9[0124578])|7(?:0[0246-9]|2\d|3[023678]|4[03-9]|5[0-46-9]|6[013-9]|7[0-35-9]|8[024-9]|9[02-9])|8(?:0[35-9]|2[1-5789]|3[02-578]|4[0-578]|5[124-9]|6[2-69]|7\d|8[02-9]|9[02569])|9(?:0[02-589]|2[02-689]|3[1-5789]|4[2-9]|5[0-579]|6[234789]|7[0124578]|8\d|9[2-57]))\d{6}|1(?:2(?:0(?:46[1-4]|87[2-9])|545[1-79]|76(?:2\d|3[1-8]|6[1-6])|9(?:7(?:2[0-4]|3[2-5])|8(?:2[2-8]|7[0-4789]|8[345])))|3(?:638[2-5]|647[23]|8(?:47[04-9]|64[015789]))|4(?:044[1-7]|20(?:2[23]|8\d)|6(?:0(?:30|5[2-57]|6[1-8]|7[2-8])|140)|8(?:052|87[123]))|5(?:24(?:3[2-79]|6\d)|276\d|6(?:26[06-9]|686))|6(?:06(?:4\d|7[4-79])|295[567]|35[34]\d|47(?:24|61)|59(?:5[08]|6[67]|74)|955[0-4])|7(?:26(?:6[13-9]|7[0-7])|442\d|50(?:2[0-3]|[3-68]2|76))|8(?:27[56]\d|37(?:5[2-5]|8[239])|84(?:3[2-58]))|9(?:0(?:0(?:6[1-8]|85)|52\d)|3583|4(?:66[1-8]|9(?:2[01]|81))|63(?:23|3[1-4])|9561))\d{3}|176888[234678]\d{2}|16977[23]\d{3}|7(?:[1-4]\d\d|5(?:0[0-8]|[13-9]\d|2[0-35-9])|624|7(?:0[1-9]|[1-7]\d|8[02-9]|9[0-689])|8(?:[014-9]\d|[23][0-8])|9(?:[04-9]\d|1[02-9]|2[0-35-9]|3[0-689]))\d{6}|76(?:0[012]|2[356]|4[0134]|5[49]|6[0-369]|77|81|9[39])\d{6}|80(?:0\d{6,7}|8\d{7})|500\d{6}|(?:87[123]|9(?:[01]\d|8[0-3]))\d{7}|8(?:4[2-5]|70)\d{7}|70\d{8}|56\d{8}|(?:3[0347]|55)\d{8}|8(?:001111|45464\d)$|(?:\((\+?\d+)?\)|(\+\d{0,3}))? ?\d{2,3}([-\.]?\d{2,3} ?){3,4}`
please dont bother about regex length.
It matches even if match length exceeds
What is missing to restrain it to filer 8-14 length pattern match only.
First off, ^(?=.{8,14})b$ means "at the beginning of the string as asserted by ^, look ahead to see if we can find a single character between 8 and 14 times, and if yes, then match a single character b then the end of the line $. You cannot have one line that is both a single character b and 8 characters in length. This part of the expression can never match. See demo.
But your regex still finds an overall match. Why? Clearly, even if ^(?=.{8,14})b$ were able to match anything, it does not set a condition for the whole expression, because something later in the regex overrides it: an alternation (|) which means that we can match what's on the left OR what's on the right.