CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phpregexstring
Schlote Klemish
Schlote Klemish

Reputation: 13

How to use php to find word between word

Hello I have html file I want to find word in matching position Like

Hello my name is jim. Hello my name is emma. hello my name is test.

What i want to do is echo word after my name is and before . (DOT) I have this php function But it will just echo first name jim how i can loop

<?php

$data = file_get_contents("test.html");

$name = cut_str($data,'my name is ','.');
echo $name;


function cut_str($str, $left, $right){
    $str = substr(stristr($str, $left), strlen($left));
    $leftLen = strlen(stristr($str, $right));
    $leftLen = $leftLen ? -($leftLen) : strlen($str);
    $str = substr($str, 0, $leftLen);
    return $str;
}

?>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 118

Answers (2)

Narendrasingh Sisodia
Narendrasingh Sisodia

Reputation: 21422

You can use preg_match_all as

preg_match_all('/(?<=(my name is))(.*?)(?=(\.))/i', 'Hello my name is jim. Hello my name is emma. hello my name is test.',$res);
print_r($res[0]);

Explanation

  • (?<=(my name is)) Positive Lookbehind - Capturing group (my name is) my name is matches the characters my name is literally
  • .*? matches any character (except newline)
  • (?=(\.)) Positive Lookahead - \. matches the character . literally
  • i modifier: insensitive. Case insensitive match (ignores case of [a-zA-Z])

Or you can also use it as

preg_match_all('/my\sname\sis(.*?)\./i', 'Hello my name is jim. Hello my name is emma. hello my name is test.',$res);
print_r($res[1]);

Demo

Upvotes: 0

chris85
chris85

Reputation: 23880

This should do it.

$name = preg_match_all('~My name is (.+?)\.~', $data, $names);
print_r($names[1]);

The . is any character.

The + is one or more characters.

The ? stops the matching at the first ..

The ~ are delimiters telling the regex where to stop and start.

PHP Demo: https://eval.in/418218

Regex101 Demo: https://regex101.com/r/dO8mQ4/1

Depending on how loose or strict you want it you may need modifiers.

You could do

$name = preg_match_all('~My\s+name\s+is\s+(.+?)\.~i', $data, $names);
print_r($names[1]);

This allows one or more whitespace (tab, newline, space) (\s+) between each word and makes the words case insensitive(i after delimiter).

Upvotes: 1

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