You might also use T-Regx library, which has automatic delimiters:
pattern('Foo(Bar)?')->test($text);
当使用 PCRE 函数的时候，模式需要由分隔符闭合包裹。 分隔符可以是任意非字母数字、非反斜线、非空白字符。 静默忽略合法分隔符之前的空白字符。
经常使用的分隔符是正斜线(/)、hash符号(#)
以及取反符号(~)。下面的例子都是使用合法分隔符的模式。
/foo bar/ #^[^0-9]$# +php+ %[a-zA-Z0-9_-]%
It is also possible to use
bracket style delimiters where the opening and closing brackets are the
starting and ending delimiter, respectively. (),
{}, [] and <>
are all valid bracket style delimiter pairs.
(this [is] a (pattern))
{this [is] a (pattern)}
[this [is] a (pattern)]
<this [is] a (pattern)>
如果需要在正则模式内匹配分隔符，必须使用反斜线转义。如果分隔符经常在 正则模式内出现， 最好使用其他分隔符以便提高可读性。
/http:\/\// #http://#
可以在结束分隔符后面增加模式修饰符。 下面的例子是一个大小写不敏感的匹配：
#[a-z]#i
You might also use T-Regx library, which has automatic delimiters:
pattern('Foo(Bar)?')->test($text);
Note that angle brackets `<>` shouldn't be used as delimiters whenever you will have to invoke advanced clusters like atomic groups or lookbehinds because their including angle bracket doesn't come in pair and escaping doesn't help either.
The dirty little delimiter secret they don't tell you ->
Examples: Balanced delims {\d{2}Some\\{33\\}\w{5}} parses to
\d{2}Some\\{33\\}\w{5} and {\d{2}Some\{33\}\w{5}} parses to \d{2}Some{33}\w{5}.
Un-Balanced delims +\d{2}Some\+33\+\w{5}+ parses to \d{2}Some+33+\w{5} and
+\d{2}Some\\+33\\+\w{5}+ won't parse because the delimiter is unescaped.
A delimiter can be any ASCII non-alphanumeric, non-backslash, non-whitespace character: !"#$%&'*+,./:;=?@^_`|~- and ({[<>]})
preg_match('{[}]}', ''); // Warning: preg_match(): Unknown modifier ']'
preg_match('{[\}]}', ''); // OK
Note that bracket style opening and closing delimiters aren't a 100% problem-free solution, as they need to be escaped when they aren't in matching pairs within the expression. That mismatch can happen when they appear inside character classes [...], as most meta-characters lose their special meaning. Consider these examples:
<?php
preg_match('{[{]}', ''); // Warning: preg_match(): No ending matching delimiter '}'
preg_match('{[}]}', ''); // Warning: preg_match(): Unknown modifier ']'
preg_match('{[}{]}', ''); // Warning: preg_match(): Unknown modifier ']'
?>
Escaping them solves it:
<?php
preg_match('{[\{]}', ''); // OK
preg_match('{[}]}', ''); // OK
preg_match('{[\}\{]}', ''); // OK
?>