what should i put in this if statment to save the the current array value to a variable
<pre><code>if (preg_match('/^([0-9]( |-)?)?(\(?[0-9]{3}\)?|[0-9]{3})( |-)?([0-9]{3}( |-)?[0-9]{4}|[a-zA-Z0-9]{7})$/', $buffer, $matches));
{
    $variable = ?;
}
</code></pre>
