Similar thread: Get repeated matches with preg_match_all() Check the chosen answer plus mine might be useful I will duplicate there: From http://www.php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.repetition.php : When a capturing subpattern is repeated, the value captured is the substring that matched the final iteration. I personally give up and going to do this in 2 steps. EDIT: I see … Read more
According to Kobi (see comments above): PHP has no support for captures of the same group Therefore this question has no solution.
preg_match stops looking after the first match. preg_match_all, on the other hand, continues to look until it finishes processing the entire string. Once match is found, it uses the remainder of the string to try and apply another match. http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match-all.php
There is no modifier g for preg_match. Instead, you have to use the preg_match_all function. So instead of: preg_match(“/^(\w|\.|-)+?@(\w|-)+?\.\w{2,4}($|\.\w{2,4})$/gim”, ….) use: preg_match_all(“/^(\w|\.|-)+?@(\w|-)+?\.\w{2,4}($|\.\w{2,4})$/im”, ….)
The code you found on the internet is kind of irrelevant. In order to achieve what you want you need something like this: $str = “[image name=ubuntustudio-tribal-54] “; $pat = “~\[image name=([^\]]+)~i”; preg_match($pat, $str, $matches); $name = $matches[1]; After that $name would be bound to ubuntustudio-tribal-54. See the docs for more details regarding PHP’s preg_match. … Read more