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<?php $string = "some text here [baz] and here [you|him|her|foo|bar|baz|foo|option|test] and even here [another]."; // Capture strings between brackets preg_match_all('~\[([^]]+)]~', $string, $matches); $groups = []; foreach ($matches[1] as $values) { // Explode them on pipe $groups[] = explode('|', $values); } print_r($groups);
Output for 5.6.0 - 5.6.40, 7.0.0 - 7.0.33, 7.1.0 - 7.1.33, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.34, 8.2.0 - 8.2.30, 8.3.0 - 8.3.30, 8.4.1 - 8.4.18, 8.5.0 - 8.5.3
Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => baz ) [1] => Array ( [0] => you [1] => him [2] => her [3] => foo [4] => bar [5] => baz [6] => foo [7] => option [8] => test ) [2] => Array ( [0] => another ) )
preferences:
285.68 ms | 2061 KiB | 4 Q