I want to find all the demo words using PHP and regEx.
$input ='demo';
$pattern = ''; //$input can be used along with regex, please help here
$text = 'This is dem*#o text, contains de12mo3 text, is .demo23* text'
if(preg_match($pattern, $text))
{
echo 'found';
}else{
echo'not found';
}
the search word demo
in the text
may be present in the following format
1) may start with special characters/numbers Eg. "12*demo"
2) may contain special characters/numbers within the word Eg. "de12*mo"
3) may end with special characters/numbers Eg. "demo12*"
please help I am stuck, thanks in advance!
Note: The $input can be max. of 15 in length