PHP Regex - Finding multiple word start with # like '#ball' -

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i trying create php regex match if word start '#' '#ball'. have tried

preg_match_all('/( #\w+)/u', $text, $matches); 

but returns words containing '#' 'pin#ball'.

try this:

$sdata = '#pin all#foo #bar'; preg_match_all('/(^|\s+)#([a-za-z]+)/', $sdata , $rgmatches); //var_dump($rgmatches[2]);