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user2650277
user2650277

Reputation: 6749

Extract variables with preg match

Hi i am having an issue in trying to extract variables using preg replace .I guess i am messing with the delimiters or just doing it wrong

Subject

'file': 'EoWviKqVizQ,end=1384596943/data=B262F941/speed=375k/2305873_hd.flv',

I need to extract 

end=1384596943/data=B262F941/speed=375k/1234_hd.flv

This is basically the string after the comma in between the single quotes.

My attempts

preg_match('#'file':'(.*)'#',$input , $matches)

preg_match("#'file':'(.*)'#",$input , $matches)

Hope someone can help me out

Regards

Upvotes: 0

Views: 59

Answers (1)

elixenide
elixenide

Reputation: 44851

Just do this:

$input = "'file': 'EoWviKqVizQ,end=1384596943/data=B262F941/speed=375k/2305873_hd.flv',";
$mypart = preg_replace("/^'file': '[^,]+,/", "", $input); // strip first part, i.e., "'file': 'EoWviKqVizQ,"
$mypart = preg_replace("/',\s*$/", "", $mypart); // strip last part, i.e., "',"
echo $mypart;

EDITED based on OP feedback (replaced initial [^']+ with file to match only lines starting with 'file', etc.

Upvotes: 1

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