Named capture in PHP using regex

Question

How can I use named capture with regex in PHP? Can anyone give me a working example?

Answer 1

According documentation

PHP 5.2.2 introduced two alternative syntaxes (?pattern) and (?'name'pattern)

So you'll get same result using:

.+)/', $string, $matches);  // basic syntax
preg_match('/(?.+)/', $string, $matches);   // alternative
preg_match("/(?'test'.+)/", $string, $matches);   // alternative

Check result on 3v4l.org