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String Matching With Regular Expression

Regular expressions are patterns used to match strings. They allow for complex pattern matching using operators like +, -, and ^. Regular expressions are useful for validating user input, highlighting keywords, and parsing HTML templates by identifying tags. The preg_match, preg_split, and preg_replace functions in PHP allow using regular expressions to search, split, and replace patterns in strings.

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String Matching With Regular Expression

Regular expressions are patterns used to match strings. They allow for complex pattern matching using operators like +, -, and ^. Regular expressions are useful for validating user input, highlighting keywords, and parsing HTML templates by identifying tags. The preg_match, preg_split, and preg_replace functions in PHP allow using regular expressions to search, split, and replace patterns in strings.

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String matching with regular expression

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What is a Regular
Expressions?
Regular expressions are powerful pattern
matching algorithm that can be performed in
a single expression. 1

Regular expressions use arithmetic


operators such as (+,-,^) to create complex
expressions.

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Why to use regular
expressions
Why to use regular expressions
• Regular expressions simplify identifying
patterns in string data by calling a single
function. This saves us coding time.
2 • When validating user input such as
email address, domain names,
telephone numbers, IP addresses,
• Highlighting keywords in search results
• When creating a custom HTML
template. Regular expressions can be
used to identify the template tags and
replace them with actual data.

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<?php
preg_match $my_url = "www.etllearninghub.com";
this function is used to perform a pattern if (preg_match("/guru/", $my_url))
match on a string. It returns true if a match
{
echo "the url $my_url
is found and false if a match is not found.
3 contains guru";
}
The first example uses the preg_match
else
function to perform a simple pattern match {
for the word guru in a given URL. echo "the url $my_url does
not contain guru";
}
?>

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preg_split
this function is used to perform a pattern
match on a string and then split the results
into a numeric array

4 We will take a string phrase and explode it


into an array; the pattern to be matched is a
single space.

The text string to be used in this example is


"I Love Regular Expressions".

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preg_replace
this function is used to perform a pattern
<?php
match on a string and then replace the
match with the specified text. $text = "We at ETL LABS strive to
make quality education affordable to
Let’s now look at the preg_replace the masses. etllearninghub.com";
function that performs a pattern match and 5
then replaces the pattern with something $text = preg_replace("/Guru/", '<span
else. style="background:yellow">Guru</spa
The code below searches for the word guru n>', $text);
in a string.
It replaces the word guru with the word guru echo $text;
surrounded by css code that highlights the
background colour. ?>

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