All Matches into Subpatterns via Regular Expressions in PHP

Using the function preg_match_all, you can split all found matches into subpatterns. Let's see how it's done.

Suppose, for example, we have a string with domains:

php<?php
  $str = 'site.ru site123.com my-site.net';
?>

Let's write a regular expression to search for a domain, separating the name and zone into separate subpatterns:

php<?php
  $reg = '#([a-z0-9_-]+)\.([a-z]{2,})#';
?>

The result will go into the third parameter of the function:

php<?php
  preg_match_all($reg, $str, $res);
  var_dump($res);
?>

As a result, we will get a two-dimensional array. The zero element of this array will contain the zero subpatterns (i.e., what matched the entire regex), the second element will contain the first subpatterns, and so on:

php<?php
  [
    ['site.ru', 'site123.com', 'my-site.net'],
    ['site', 'site123', 'my-site'],
    ['ru', 'com', 'net'],
  ]
?>

php<?php
  $str = '2023-10-29 2024-11-30 2025-12-31';
?>