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This package provides regexp patterns to match Unicode emojis. All forms of emojis are matched, including:

• Single-character emoji (👍)
• Emoji that are variants of other characters (e.g. ⌚️ instead of ⌚︎)
• Fitzpatrick Modifiers (e.g. skintones 👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿)
• ZWJ Sequences (e.g. 💑)
• Combining sequences and Combining Marks (e.g. 0️⃣)
• Flag sequences (e.g 🇨🇦)

All emojis are derived directly from the standard unicode data files, using an automated script.

Installation

Use Composer to install the library:

$ composer require incenteev/emoji-pattern

Usage

The provided pattern relies on the u modifier of PCRE and so works only for UTF-8 strings.

use Incenteev\EmojiPattern\EmojiPattern;

$emojiRegexp = '/' . EmojiPattern::getEmojiPattern() . '/u';

License

This package is under the MIT license.

Credits

The initial version of the package was a port of SwiftEmoji.

Reporting an issue or a feature request

Issues and feature requests are tracked in the Github issue tracker.