How can regular expressions be utilized to extract a filename from a text string in PHP?

To extract a filename from a text string using regular expressions in PHP, you can use the preg_match function with a regex pattern that matches the filename format. The regex pattern can look for a sequence of characters that resemble a typical filename, such as alphanumeric characters, periods, underscores, and hyphens. Once the pattern is matched, you can retrieve the filename from the text string. 

$text = "This is a sample text with a filename example.txt embedded within it.";
$pattern = '/[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+\.[a-zA-Z]{3,4}/'; // Regex pattern to match a typical filename
if (preg_match($pattern, $text, $matches)) {
    $filename = $matches[0];
    echo "Extracted filename: $filename";
} else {
    echo "No filename found in the text.";
}

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