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<?php $string = "The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986, in the No. 4 nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat, in the north of the Ukrainian SSR."; $pattern1 = '%[A-Z]\w+%'; $pattern2 = '%\d+%'; preg_replace_callback_array( [ '~[a]+~i' => function ($match) { echo strlen($match[0]), ' matches for "a" found', PHP_EOL; }, '~[b]+~i' => function ($match) { echo strlen($match[0]), ' matches for "b" found', PHP_EOL; } ], $string );