Regex extract characters between two string including delimiters

Question

I'm trying to extract the text between two characters including the delimiters, but only the text without the delimiter is returned:

.+(?<=\()(.*?)(?=\))

See the current regex demo.

Example:
Some text (1990) (//Divulgação)

Should return:
(//Divulgação) (not //Divulgação)

Answer 1

You may extract those substrings between ( and ) using

preg_match('~.*\K\([^()]*\)~s', $s, $matches)

See the regex demo.

Details

• .* - any 0+ chars, as many as possible
• \K - match reset operator that discards the text matched so far from the match buffer
• \( - a ( char
• [^()]* - 0+ chars other than ( and )
• \) - a ) char.