Funciones de expresiones regulares de PHP
Introducción a las expresiones regulares de PHP
Las expresiones regulares le permiten buscar y reemplazar patrones en cadenas.
Instalación
Las funciones de expresiones regulares de PHP son parte del núcleo de PHP. No se requiere instalación para utilizar estas funciones.
Configuración de tiempo de ejecución
Esta configuración en php.ini se puede usar para limitar la cantidad de tiempo o recursos utilizados al evaluar expresiones regulares.
| Name | Default | Description | Changeable |
|---|---|---|---|
| pcre.backtrack_limit | "1000000" | The maximum number of backtracks that the regular expression engine is allowed to do while evaluating an expression. (available since PHP 5.2) | PHP_INI_ALL |
| pcre.recursion_limit | "100000" | The maximum recursion depth that the regular expression engine is permitted to reach while evaluating an expression. (available since PHP 5.2) | PHP_INI_ALL |
| pcre.jit | "1" | When set to "1" this enables PCRE's (Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions) just-in-time compilation. (available since PHP 7.0) | PHP_INI_ALL |
Funciones de expresiones regulares de PHP
| Function | Description |
|---|---|
| preg_filter() | Returns a string or an array with pattern matches replaced, but only if matches were found |
| preg_grep() | Returns an array consisting only of elements from the input array which matched the pattern |
| preg_last_error() | Returns an error code indicating the reason that the most recent regular expression call failed |
| preg_match() | Finds the first match of a pattern in a string |
| preg_match_all() | Finds all matches of a pattern in a string |
| preg_replace() | Returns a string where matches of a pattern (or an array of patterns) are replaced with a substring (or an array of substrings) in a given string |
| preg_replace_callback() | Given an expression and a callback, returns a string where all matches of the expression are replaced with the substring returned by the callback |
| preg_replace_callback_array() | Given an array associating expressions with callbacks, returns a string where all matches of each expression are replaced with the substring returned by the callback |
| preg_split() | Breaks a string into an array using matches of a regular expression as separators |
| preg_quote() | Escapes characters that have a special meaning in regular expressions by putting a backslash in front of them |
Modificadores de expresiones regulares
Los modificadores pueden cambiar la forma en que se realiza una búsqueda.
| Modifier | Description |
|---|---|
| i | Performs a case-insensitive search |
| m | Performs a multiline search (patterns that search for the beginning or end of a string will match the beginning or end of each line) |
| u | Enables correct matching of UTF-8 encoded patterns |
Patrones de expresiones regulares
Los corchetes se utilizan para encontrar un rango de caracteres:
| Expression | Description |
|---|---|
| [abc] | Find one character from the options between the brackets |
| [^abc] | Find any character NOT between the brackets |
| [0-9] | Find one character from the range 0 to 9 |
Metacaracteres
Los metacaracteres son caracteres con un significado especial:
| Metacharacter | Description |
|---|---|
| | | Find a match for any one of the patterns separated by | as in: cat|dog|fish |
| . | Find just one instance of any character |
| ^ | Finds a match as the beginning of a string as in: ^Hello |
| $ | Finds a match at the end of the string as in: World$ |
| \d | Find a digit |
| \s | Find a whitespace character |
| \b | Find a match at the beginning of a word like this: \bWORD, or at the end of a word like this: WORD\b |
| \uxxxx | Find the Unicode character specified by the hexadecimal number xxxx |
cuantificadores
Los cuantificadores definen cantidades:
| Quantifier | Description |
|---|---|
| n+ | Matches any string that contains at least one n |
| n* | Matches any string that contains zero or more occurrences of n |
| n? | Matches any string that contains zero or one occurrences of n |
| n{x} | Matches any string that contains a sequence of X n's |
| n{x,y} | Matches any string that contains a sequence of X to Y n's |
| n{x,} | Matches any string that contains a sequence of at least X n's |
Nota: Si su expresión necesita buscar uno de los caracteres especiales, puede usar una barra invertida ( \ ) para escapar de ellos. Por ejemplo, para buscar uno o más signos de interrogación puede usar la siguiente expresión: $patrón = '/\?+/';