Using Laravel for Advanced String Manipulation in PHP/

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Solution: Adjust the Pattern To Return the Required Matches

Solution: Adjust the Pattern To Return the Required Matches

Learn how to adjust the pattern that will return the required output.

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Problem statement

Observe following code sample:

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<?php
$text = <<<'TEXT'
"one", "two", "three, \"four\", five", "six", "seven"
TEXT;
preg_match_all(
    '/".*?"/',
    $text,
    $matches
);

This will return the following matches:

[
  0 => [
    0 => ""one""
    1 => ""two""
    2 => ""three, \""
    3 => "", five""
    4
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