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Writing better Regular Expressions in PHP • PHP.Watch

Regular Expressions are powerful, PHP but they are not known to be readable, and more often than not, maintaining a regular expression is not a straight-forward task. PHP uses PCRE (PCRE2 since PHP 7.
Saved on: 2021-06-16

Mastering Lookahead and Lookbehind

Lookarounds often cause confusion to the regex apprentice. I believe this confusion promptly disappears if one simple point is firmly grasped. It is that at the end of a lookahead or a lookbehind, the regex engine hasn't moved on the string.
Saved on: 2018-03-16
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