<?php // your input $haystack = "jack john 123 jill £2310 peter paul 123 328190 john john peter 1 paul 049 peter paul 999"; // find the matches and write them into $matches preg_match_all('/(?<=peter paul\s)[\d]+/', $haystack, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE); // output print_r($matches);
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