This package provides regexp patterns to match Unicode emojis. All forms of emojis are matched, including:
- Single-character emoji (π)
- Emoji that are variants of other characters (e.g. βοΈ instead of βοΈ)
- Fitzpatrick Modifiers (e.g. skintones ππ»ππΌππ½ππΎππΏ)
- ZWJ Sequences (e.g. π)
- Combining sequences and Combining Marks (e.g. 0οΈβ£)
- Flag sequences (e.g π¨π¦)
All emojis are derived directly from the standard unicode data files, using an automated script.
Use Composer to install the library:
$ composer require incenteev/emoji-pattern
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';
This package is under the MIT license.
The initial version of the package was a port of SwiftEmoji.
Issues and feature requests are tracked in the Github issue tracker.