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    Regular Expression With JS and PHP

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    Regular expressions (regex) allow complex text matching and are supported in JavaScript and PHP. The syntax uses symbols like periods, brackets, and pipes to define patterns to match text. Common regex functions include search(), replace(), match(), and test() in JavaScript and preg_match(), preg_replace() in PHP. Quantifiers like *, + and {} are used to specify occurrence counts in patterns. Regex can match characters, words, numbers, whitespace and more using special characters like \w, \d, \s.

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    Regular expressions (regex) allow complex text matching and are supported in JavaScript and PHP. The syntax uses symbols like periods, brackets, and pipes to define patterns to match text. Common regex functions include search(), replace(), match(), and test() in JavaScript and preg_match(), preg_replace() in PHP. Quantifiers like *, + and {} are used to specify occurrence counts in patterns. Regex can match characters, words, numbers, whitespace and more using special characters like \w, \d, \s.

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    Regular expressions (regex) allow complex text matching and are supported in JavaScript and PHP. The syntax uses symbols like periods, brackets, and pipes to define patterns to match text. Common regex functions include search(), replace(), match(), and test() in JavaScript and preg_match(), preg_replace() in PHP. Quantifiers like *, + and {} are used to specify occurrence counts in patterns. Regex can match characters, words, numbers, whitespace and more using special characters like \w, \d, \s.

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    Regular Expression With JS and PHP

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    Regular expressions (regex) allow complex text matching and are supported in JavaScript and PHP. The syntax uses symbols like periods, brackets, and pipes to define patterns to match text. Common regex functions include search(), replace(), match(), and test() in JavaScript and preg_match(), preg_replace() in PHP. Quantifiers like *, + and {} are used to specify occurrence counts in patterns. Regex can match characters, words, numbers, whitespace and more using special characters like \w, \d, \s.

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    Regular Expressions with JS and PHP

    Weimao Ke
    Regular Expressions (RegEx)
    Regular Expressions (RegEx)

    A regular expression is
    a sequence of symbols that forms a search pattern.
    I Symbols include alphabets, numbers, and special characters.
    I They can be used for text search/matching, or search &
    replace.
    Basic Syntax
    Basic Syntax

    /pattern/modifiers
    Example:
    /CCI/i
    I This will match the string containing CCI
    I i modifier for case-insensitive, i.e. cci matches
    Javascript Regular Expression
    Javascript Regular Expression

    JavaScript supports RegEx.


    Search

    For example, the following will search for CCI in a URL string:
    var myURL = "https://cci.drexel.edu";
    var position = myURL.search(/CCI/i);
    if(position>=0){
    console.log("Found CCI at position " + position);
    }else{
    console.log("URL does not contain CCI");
    }
    Replace

    You can also search a string and replace it with another:


    var oldURL = "https://ischool.drexel.edu";
    var newURL = oldURL.replace(/iSchool/i, "cci");
    console.log("New URL", newURL);
    Test

    You can test a pattern on a string:


    var pattern = /ischool/i;
    var result = pattern.test("Is iSchool here?"); // true or f
    Match

    You can find matches of a pattern:


    var pattern = /CCI/i;
    var message = "CCI at https://cci.drexel.edu or #cCI";
    var result = pattern.match(message); // ['CCI', 'cci', 'cCI
    Modifiers

    I i for case-insensitive matching


    I g for a global match (find all matches instead of first match)
    I m for multiline matching
    Search Pattern: Metacharacter

    I . for any single character


    I \. for a dot (period) symbol
    I \w for a word character or alphabet, a, b, . . .
    I \d for a digit, e.g. 0, 1, . . .
    I \s for a whitespace character
    I \b for word boundary, e.g. space, punctuation
    I uxxxx for a unicode character
    Example:
    var pattern = /\d\d\d\d\d/;
    var zip = '19104';
    pattern.test(zip); // does it contain 5 digits for zip
    Search Pattern: Quantifier

    To specify the number of occurrences in a pattern:


    I ? for 0 or 1 occurrence
    I * for 0 or more occurrences
    I + for at least 1 occurrences
    var pattern = /C+I/; // matches at least 1 occurrences of C
    pattern.test("CI"); // true
    pattern.test("CCI"); // true
    pattern.test("CCCI"); // true
    Search Pattern: Quantifier

    To precisely define the number of occurrences:


    I {X} for X number of occurrences
    I {X,Y} for between X and Y number of occurrences
    I ˆ matches the start of the string
    I $ matches the end of the string
    Example:
    var pattern = /^\d{5}$/; // 5 and only 5 digits in the e
    pattern.test("12345"); // true
    pattern.test("1234"); // false
    pattern.test("123456"); // false
    Search Pattern: Brackets

    Brackets for a range of characters:


    I [abc] for any ONE of the characters a, b, or c
    I [ˆabc] for any character NOT in the brackets
    I [0-9] or [a-z] for any symbol in the range
    I [ˆ0-9] for a non-digit
    I (abc|xyz) for a match of abc or xyz
    var pattern1 = /[bch]at/; matches bat, cat, or hat
    var pattern2 = /(CCI|CS|IS)/; matches CCI, or CS, or IS
    PHP Regular Expressions
    PHP Regular Expressions

    PHP supports RegEx:


    I The same matching patterns and expressions
    I With different RegEx functions:
    1. preg_match() Returns 1 if the pattern was found in the string
    and 0 if not
    2. preg_match_all() Returns the number of times the pattern
    was found in the string, which may also be 0
    3. preg_replace() Returns a new string where matched patterns
    have been replaced with another string
    Match

    $myURL = "https://cci.drexel.edu";
    $pattern = "/CCI/i";
    echo preg_match($pattern, $myURL); // output 1 as there is
    Replace

    $oldURL = "https://ischool.drexel.edu";
    $pattern = "/iSchool/i";
    $newURL = preg_replace($pattern, "cci", $oldURL);
    echo $newURL;
    References
    References

    I https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_regexp.asp
    I https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_regexp.asp
    I https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_regex.asp

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