public function getEmojiPattern()
    {
        if (null === self::$emojiPattern) {
            $codeString = '';

            foreach ($this->getEmojiCodeList() as $code) {
                if (is_array($code)) {

                    $first = dechex(array_shift($code));
                    $last  = dechex(array_pop($code));
                    $codeString .= '\x{' . $first . '}-\x{' . $last . '}';

                } else {
                    $codeString .= '\x{' . dechex($code) . '}';
                }
            }

            self::$emojiPattern = "/[$codeString]/u";
        }

        return self::$emojiPattern;
    }
public function getEmojiPattern()
    {
        if (null === self::$emojiPattern) {
            $codeString = '';

            foreach ($this->getEmojiCodeList() as $code) {
                if (is_array($code)) {

                    $first = dechex(array_shift($code));
                    $last  = dechex(array_pop($code));
                    $codeString .= '\x{' . $first . '}-\x{' . $last . '}';

                } else {
                    $codeString .= '\x{' . dechex($code) . '}';
                }
            }

            self::$emojiPattern = "/[$codeString]/u";
        }

        return self::$emojiPattern;
    }
Returns a regular expression pattern to detect emoji characters.

@return string