How to generate set of array from string in php

Question

This is my string

#Jhon: Manager #Mac: Project Manager #Az: Owner

And I want array something like this

$array = ['0' => 'Manager', '1' => 'Project Manager', '2' => 'Owner']

I tried this but each time return only 'Manager'

$string = '#Jhon: Manager #Mac: Project Manager #Az: Owner';
getText($string, ':', ' #')
public function getText($string, $start, $end)
{
  $pattern = sprintf(
      '/%s(.+?)%s/ims',
      preg_quote($start, '/'), preg_quote($end, '/')
  );

  if (preg_match($pattern, $string, $matches)) {
      list(, $match) = $matches;
      echo $match;
  }
} 

Answer 1

You may preg_split the contents and use the following solution:

$re = '/\s*#[^:]+:\s*/';
$str = '#Jhon: Manager #Mac: Project Manager #Az: Owner';
$res = preg_split($re, $str, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
print_r($res);

See the PHP demo and a regex demo.

Pattern details:

• \s* - 0+ whitespaces
• # - a literal # symbol
• [^:]+ to match 1+ chars other than :
• : - a colon
• \s* - 0+ whitespaces.

Note that -1 in the preg_split function is the $limit argument telling PHP to split any amount of times (as necessary) and PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY will discard all empty matches (this one may be removed if you need to keep empty matches, that depends on what you need to do further).