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Asked: 2026-06-17T14:42:38+00:00

how I can join these two patterns to fit on a single preg_match_all: I

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how I can join these two patterns to fit on a single preg_match_all:
I have this:

preg_match_all("/(<span[^>]*annot[^>]*value=.?(\w*).?[^>]*>)(.*?)<\/span>/", $text, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE);

and this:

preg_match_all("/(<span[^>]*value=.?(\w*).?[^>]*annot[^>]*>)(.*?)<\/span>/", $text, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE);

I need the pattern to look for two things at once

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  1. Editorial Team

    Despite the HTML matching thing, try this:

    preg_match_all("/((<span[^>]*annot[^>]*value=.?(\w*).?[^>]*>)(.*?)<\/span>|(<span[^>]*value=.?(\w*).?[^>]*annot[^>]*>)(.*?)<\/span>)/", $text, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE);

    They are just combined via an or operator like this:

    (exp1|exp2)

    Edit: If I understood what you are trying to do, matching “annot= value=” and “value= annot=”, you can use this regexp instead (Hope I didn’t mess anything, but you should get the idea):

    (<span[^>]*(value=.?(\w*).?[^>]*|annot[^>]*)>)(.*?)<\/span>
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