$re = '/(?:(?<=^|[^\w0-9-_])(?<!@)@)([\w0-9-_]*)(?=[^\w@]|$)(?!@)/';
$str = 'Привет, @user1-_! Как дела? А вот у @another-user_id1234 дела были ничего такие.';
preg_match_all($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