$re = '/\b/m';
$str = '0_0
____-_
____ - _
- s
so-
-so
s-o
~-®
The -soner
“The captain wore his cap and cape proudly as
he sat listening to the recap of how his
crew saved the men from a capsized vessel.
”
Excerpt From: Ben Forta. “Learning Regular Expressions.” iBooks. ';
preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0);
// Print the entire match result
var_dump($matches);
Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for PHP, please visit: http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php