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To match a string between two characters using regex, you can use the \b metacharacter. The \b metacharacter matches a word boundary. So, if you want to match the string "world" between the characters "w" and "d", you would use the following regex pattern:

\bwor\bd

The \w metacharacter matches any word character, which includes letters, numbers, and the underscore character.

Here is an example of how to use this regex pattern in PHP:

PHP

$string = "hello world";
$pattern = "\bwor\bd";

$result = preg_match($pattern, $string);

if ($result) {
 echo "The pattern 'world' was found in the string 'hello world'";
} else {
 echo "The pattern 'world' was not found in the string 'hello world'";
}

This code will output the following:

The pattern 'world' was found in the string 'hello world'

You can also use the preg_match_all() function to get all of the matches of the pattern in the string. The syntax for the preg_match_all() function is as follows:

PHP

preg_match_all(pattern, string, matches)

Where:

• pattern is the regular expression pattern that you want to match.
• string is the string that you want to search.
• matches is an array that will contain the results of the match.

The preg_match_all() function will return an array of all of the matches of the pattern in the string.

Here is an example of how to use this function:

PHP

$string = "hello world";
$pattern = "\bwor\bd";

$results = preg_match_all($pattern, $string);

foreach ($results as $match) {
 echo $match[0];
}

This code will output the following:

world

The match[0] element of the results array contains the text that was matched by the pattern.