README

• Forked from the original PHP Verbal Expressions library.
• Ported from VerbalExpressions.

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

Examples

$regex = new VerbalExpressions;

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

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

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

Building the project and running the tests

All tests are written using PHPUnit. Please ensure that you have it installed and run all tests before contributing.