$re = '/\[icons[\w\s](?:(\w*)\=["|\']([^"|\']*))+.*?\]/i';
$str = '[icons a="1" b=\'2\' c="3"]
[icons d="4" e=\'5\' f="6"]';
preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0);
// Print the entire match result
var_dump($matches);
Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for PHP, please visit: http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php