$re = '/([1-9][0-9]{0,8})|([12][01][0-4][0-7][0-4][0-8][0-3][0-6][0-4][0-7])/m';
$str = '4809238
1
2147483647';
preg_match_all($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