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<?php $data = [ 'Light Blue1', 'Blue2', 'Blue1', 'Black3', 'Black12', 'Black2' ]; $result = []; foreach ($data as $value) { sscanf($value, '%[^0-9]%d', $color, $number); if (!isset($result[$color]) || $result[$color]['number'] < $number) { $result[$color] = ['value' => $value, 'number' => $number]; } } var_export(array_column($result, 'value'));
Output for 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.1 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.33, 8.2.0 - 8.2.29, 8.3.0 - 8.3.26, 8.4.1 - 8.4.13
array ( 0 => 'Light Blue1', 1 => 'Blue2', 2 => 'Black12', )

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