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<?php $text = 'some text [person name="Jackson" family="Smith"] text [vehicle brand="Benz" type="SUV" doors="4" seats="7"] and [invalid closed="false" monkeywrench [lonetag] text [single gender="female"]'; foreach (preg_match_all('~\[(\w+)(?=(?: \w+="\w+")*])(]?)|(?:\G(?!^) (\w+)="(\w+)")~', $text, $out, PREG_SET_ORDER) ? $out : [] as $matches) { if ($matches[2]) { $result[$matches[1]] = []; } elseif (!isset($matches[3])) { $tag = $matches[1]; } else { $result[$tag][$matches[3]] = $matches[4]; } } var_export($result);