regex - Regular Expression in PHP to filter @name or @name.lastname

Solution:

Using\@[a-z0-9\-\.]+ for the first pattern will also match the dot in@alycianne. which looks like the end of the string.

In the second pattern that you tried\@(([a-z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-z0-9])+ you are repeating the first group 1 or more times. That group ends on a dot, so to get a match, there should be at least a dot.

The second part of the group is also repeated 1 or more times, so there should also be at least a char a-z0-9 after the dot.

To get all 4 matches, you can make the first group optional using*

@(?:[a-z0-9-]+\.)*[a-z0-9]+
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Note that you don't have to escape the\@ and that you can repeat the character class itself[a-z0-9]+ instead of matching a single char in a capture group and then repeat the group.

Example code

$txt = "Testando se essa pescaria é valida @ju1lio.leao, se não for aciona @alycianne.
Importante deixar @mirian ciente. E a @simone.akemi de sobreaviso.";
$pattern = "/@(?:[a-z0-9-]+\.)*[a-z0-9]+/";
preg_match_all($pattern, $txt, $matches);
print_r($matches[0]);
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Output

Array
(
    [0] => @ju1lio.leao
    [1] => @alycianne
    [2] => @mirian
    [3] => @simone.akemi
)
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