Third-person singular simple present indicative form of match.(verb)
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Use "matches" in a sentence
"Each Round is best of three matches; Grand/Losers/Winners Finals are best of five matches*"
"You shouldn't use print_r on it, instead you should extract the matches you're looking for and index into it appropriately. print $matches [1] [0];."
"PREG_PATTERN_ORDER: Orders results so that $matches [0] is an array of full pattern matches, $matches [1] is an array of strings matched by the first parenthesized subpattern, and so on."