Php pcre regex or operator tutorial

2 November 2014

PCRE regular expression operator OR. In regular expressions "or" is known as "alternatives". Create a subgroup using parenthesis.

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browse-tutorials.com/snippet/regex
browse-tutorials.com/tutorial/regex
browse-tutorials.com/video/regex
Programming Language: Text

Regular expression

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/browse-tutorials.com\/(snippet|tutorial)\/(.*)/
Programming Language: PCRE

Result

Only the first two will match.