php regex and chinese characters

Question

I'm trying to extract the date "25/01/2005", the company name "A One Investment Company Limited 大一投資有限公司", the Chinese name "大一投資有限公司" and the licence number "ABG896" from this string:

Name: A One Investment Company Limited 大一投資有限公司(ABG896) Date of Licence: 25/01/2005 Remarks

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However I have no idea how to extract all the data INCLUDING the chinese signs into an array.

Answer 1

If your string is encoded as utf-8, set /u mode and use \\p{L} to match unicode letters or use \\X as a replacement for . . Note that \\X matches newlines, whereas . does not.

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