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<?php $pattern = '(foo|bar)/*'; $pattern = preg_quote($pattern, '#'); // Asterisks are translated into zero-or-more regular expression wildcards // to make it convenient to check if the strings starts with the given // pattern such as "library/*", making any string check convenient. $pattern = str_replace('\*', '.*', $pattern).'\z'; echo '#^'.$pattern.'#';
Output for 4.3.0 - 4.3.11, 4.4.0 - 4.4.9, 5.0.0 - 5.0.5, 5.1.0 - 5.1.6, 5.2.0 - 5.2.17, 5.3.0 - 5.3.29, 5.4.0 - 5.4.45, 5.5.0 - 5.5.38, 5.6.0 - 5.6.38, 7.0.0 - 7.0.33, 7.1.0 - 7.1.25, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.28, 8.2.0 - 8.2.18, 8.3.0 - 8.3.6
#^\(foo\|bar\)/.*\z#
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309.31 ms | 406 KiB | 424 Q