taking the value contained in the brackets using php

Question

for example the string is my name is xyz(25) i want to get 25 in a variable through php..

Answer 1

Use regular expressions.

Answer 2

use preg_match to do it:

$string = "xyz(25)";
preg_match("/.*\((\d*)\)/", $string, $matches);
print_r($matches);

will return

Array
(
    [0] => xyz(25)
    [1] => 25
)

Answer 3

I think skurpur/phalacee solutions are the most flexible/best approaches, however I found two others:

<?php
  $exploded = explode("(", "xyz(25)");
  $yourint = (int)$exploded[1];  
?>

<?php 
  $exploded = (int)substr(strchr("xyz(25)","("), 1);
?>