##PHPVerbalExpressions

• ported from VerbalExpressions

VerbalExpressions is a PHP library that helps to construct hard regular expressions.

// some tests

$regex = new VerbalExpressions;

$regex 	->startOfLine()
		->then("http")
		->maybe("s")
		->then("://")
		->maybe("www.")
		->anythingBut(" ")
		->endOfLine();


if($regex->test("http://github.com"))
	echo "valid url";
else
	echo "invalid url";

if (preg_match($regex, 'http://github.com')) {
	echo 'valid url';
} else {
	echo 'invalud url';
}


echo "<pre>". $regex->getRegex() ."</pre>";



echo $regex ->clean(array("modifiers" => "m", "replaceLimit" => 4))
			->find(' ')
			->replace("This is a small test http://somesite.com and some more text.", "-");

Other Implementations

You can see an up to date list of all ports on VerbalExpressions.github.io.

• Javascript
• Ruby
• C#
• Python
• Java
• C++