Selecting text from between two separate strings + php

Question

Hi there,

I've got a string of data, and I want to remove the content between two blocks of text using PHP. Here's an example:

"dataset123"

The text I want is here.

"endfile"

I want everything between those two quoted values. The values won't change, so they can be hard coded.

Any ideas? I've tried searching for something like this. I'm sure I have to use str_match and regex, but I'm not sure how to go about doing it.

Thanks! Jon

Answer 1

preg_match('!dataset123(.*)endfile!s', $string, $matches);
var_dump($matches[1]);

or

$start = strpos($string, 'dataset123');
$end = strpos($string, 'endfile');
var_dump(substr($string, $start + 10, $end - $start - 10));

ps: due to that limiters are constant literals - i've used constant 10 as string length