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Carondimonio
Carondimonio

Reputation: 111

php string finding substrings

Sorry if this is a newbie question. Lets say I have this string (the values name and server can change): Also I forgot to say that I know the length of 'something' .

$str='something-name:Jon,server:localhost'

Now I must pull the values: 'Jon' and 'localhost' and put them in variables.

What I am doing now:

if ((strpos($str, 'something')) !== false){
    $par_name = strpos($str, 'name:');
    if ($par_name !== false){
        $name = substr($n, 20);
    } 
}

Now:

$name == 'Jon,server:localhost'

Instead I need to get only the name and the after the server substring.

$name == 'Jon'
$server == 'localhost'

I guess I have to find the exact value for the third parameter of substr. I dont know.

Thank you for your responses.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 81

Answers (2)

Amal
Amal

Reputation: 76666

You can do this easily with explode(). Split the string with comma as the delimiter, split the parts with colon as the delimiter, and grab the part before the colon in both the parts:

$str='something-name:Jon,server:localhost';
list($part1, $part2) = explode(',', $str);
list(,$name) = explode(':', $part1);
list(,$server) = explode(':', $part2);

Demo!

Upvotes: 3

Cristian Bitoi
Cristian Bitoi

Reputation: 1557

It's just a fast example of how you could achieve this:

$str='something-name:Jon,server:localhost'

$explode = explode(',', $str);

$explodePart1 = explode(':', $explode[0]);

$explodePart2 = explode(':', $explode[1]);

$name = explodePart1[1]
$server = explodePart2[1];

Upvotes: 2

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