Regular Expression: Match word and save anything else until space

Question

I am trying to regex for words matching @food_ _ or #food__ in a string, so that I always match @food or #food and any other letters succeeding until a space. This is giving me errors:

preg_match_all('/\#/food/i', $unparsed, $parsed);

Also, how can I add conditions like matching: Food, FOOD & food ?

Answer 1

preg_match_all('/[#@]food\S*/i', $unparsed, $parsed);