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Good day! Why is this expression -

preg_match_all('/\S{2,}/s', $text, $out);

Does it work correctly with English characters and incorrectly with Russians (it works on one letter)?

Reported as a duplicate by the participants αλεχολυτ , Mikhail Vaysman , Denis Bubnov , vp_arth , Sasha Omelchenko 26 Apr '17 at 5:17 .

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    Most likely, because $ text in unicode. Add a u modifier. - Indifferent
  • For sure. Thank. - woland

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Most likely, because $text in unicode. Add u modifier:

 preg_match_all('/\S{2,}/us', $text, $out);

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