Hi,
I have a string in PHP for example $string = "Blabla [word]";
I would like to filter the word between the '[' brackets.
The result should be like this $substring = "word";
thanks
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A:
preg_match('/\[(.*?)\]/', $string, $match);
$substring = $match[1];
SilentGhost
2010-05-12 10:36:45
perfect, thank you!
Tom Dalenberg
2010-05-12 10:40:15
`.*?` or rather just `.*`?
binaryLV
2010-05-12 10:54:56
@binary: in case there are many such substrings, you'd want to capture them individually I suppose.
SilentGhost
2010-05-12 10:57:20
If there are many such substrings, I would use `preg_match_all()` with 'U' modifier (PCRE_UNGREEDY) instead of `preg_match()`. I can't get though, why do ".*?" and ".*" return different results with strings like "foo [bar] something [else]"
binaryLV
2010-05-12 11:21:32
@binary: `.*?` is a lazy quantifier, the same what `'U'` flag does: Matches pattern of any length but prefers the shortest one.
SilentGhost
2010-05-12 11:46:39
@SilentGhost: didn't know about such usage of `?`, tx for explanation
binaryLV
2010-05-12 12:14:35
+1
A:
Try:
preg_match ('/\[(.*)\]$/', $string, $matches);
$substring = $matches[1];
var_dump ($substring);
Piotr Pankowski
2010-05-12 10:38:28