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@ 2014-01-29T18:12:32Z

<?php

$range = "2008-2013";
$year = "2008";
$shite = "-2013";

$regex = "/(^\d{0,4}+?:-(\d{0,4}+))/is";
$matches = array();

preg_match($regex, $range, $matches);
preg_match($regex, $year, $matches);
preg_match($regex, $shite, $matches);

print_r($matches);

?>

Output
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preg_match: documentation ( source)
print_r: documentation ( source)

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32.56 ms | 402 KiB | 5 Q