preg_match('~\[img_list\](.*?)\[/img_list\]~s', $text, $search); // Ищем находим и берем $text = preg_replace('~\[img_list\](.*?)\[/img_list\]~s', '', $text); // Убираем найденное $img_list = preg_split('~\n~', $search[1]); // найденное разбиваем на массив, к примеру 3 элемента.

The fact is that further with these elements I will work. But elements must be numbered from 1 to so on.

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You can add the beginning of the string to regex as one of the alternatives and then remove the empty zero element from the result

 $arr = preg_split('/^|\d/', 'a2b3c'); // [0=> '', 1=>'a', 2=>'b'...] unset($arr[0]); // [1=>'a', 2=>'b'...]