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<?php $string = 'A/B/PA ID U/PA ID U/C/D'; // get only first value starting with PA: echo preg_match('~PA[^/]+~', $string, $match) ? $match[0] : ''; echo "\n---\n"; // get all values strings with PA: var_export(preg_match_all('~PA[^/]+~', $string, $matches) ? $matches[0] : []); echo "\n---\n"; // get all delimited values: var_export(explode('/', $string));
Output for 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.33, 8.2.0 - 8.2.29, 8.3.0 - 8.3.25, 8.4.1 - 8.4.12
PA ID U --- array ( 0 => 'PA ID U', 1 => 'PA ID U', ) --- array ( 0 => 'A', 1 => 'B', 2 => 'PA ID U', 3 => 'PA ID U', 4 => 'C', 5 => 'D', )
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