From 10a24651c274ceb81f001212c17fe8a91f573f94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bram Ceulemans <bramceulemans@me.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 20:07:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Allow for -> syntax to be used in parsing

---
 src/Faker/Generator.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/Faker/Generator.php b/src/Faker/Generator.php
index 3d7ce6a6c9..c0a907f7a7 100644
--- a/src/Faker/Generator.php
+++ b/src/Faker/Generator.php
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ public function parse($string)
             return $this->format($matches[1]);
         };
 
-        return preg_replace_callback('/\{\{\s?(\w+)\s?\}\}/u', $callback, $string);
+        return preg_replace_callback('/{{\s?(\w+|[\w\\\]+->\w+?)\s?}}/u', $callback, $string);
     }
 
     /**