PHP preg_match to find multiple occurrences

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You want to use preg_match_all(). Here is how it would look in your code. The actual function returns the count of items found, but the $matches array will hold the results:

<?php
$string = "/brown fox jumped [0-9]/";

$paragraph = "The brown fox jumped 1 time over the fence. The green fox did not. Then the brown fox jumped 2 times over the fence";

if (preg_match_all($string, $paragraph, $matches)) {
  echo count($matches[0]) . " matches found";
}else {
  echo "match NOT found";
}
?>

Will output:

2 matches found

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