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Find Whole Words in PHP

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Regular Expression

/	+/
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Explanation

This regex pattern uses the \b metacharacter to match the boundary between a word character and a non-word character. By using \b at the beginning and end of the pattern, it ensures that the match is a whole word.

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Example Usage

preg_match_all('/\b\w+\b/', $text, $matches);
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