php preg_match用西里尔字符获取单词

Question

I try to get some word from string, but this word maybe will have cyrillic characters, I try to get it, but all what I to do - not working.

Please help me; My code

  $str= "Продавец:В KrossАдын рассказать друзьям  var addthis_config = {'data_track_clickback':true};";
$pattern = '/\s(\w*|.*?)\s/';
preg_match($pattern, $str, $matches);
echo $matches[0];

I need to get KrossАдын.

Thaks!

Answer 1

The issue is that your string uses UTF-8 characters, which \w will not match. Check this answer on StackOverflow for a solution: UTF-8 in PHP regular expressions

Essentially, you'll want to add the u modifier at the end of your expression, and use \p{L} instead of \w.