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<?php $types = ['auto', 'int', 'float', 'string', 'html', 'list', 'pattern']; // echo '('.implode('|', $types).')'; $str = 'string(1;25)'; preg_match('/('.implode('|', $types).')\((.*?)\)/i', $str, $matches); var_dump($matches);
Output for 7.0.0 - 7.0.20, 7.1.0 - 7.1.20, 7.2.5 - 7.2.33, 7.3.16 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.27, 8.2.0 - 8.2.17, 8.3.0 - 8.3.4
array(3) { [0]=> string(12) "string(1;25)" [1]=> string(6) "string" [2]=> string(4) "1;25" }

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