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phpregexstringfind
frosty
frosty

Reputation: 2649

Find random texts in between and after certain words

I have a string with a random amount of words, and I need to find the random texts that is in between the words, one and two, and after the word two. I managed to get the random texts in between the words, one and two, but after the word two, I'm only getting one character of the random texts. Please take a look at my code, and let me know what I did wrong. 

$string = 'one randomText two randomText';
preg_match_all('/one\\s+(.+?)\\s+two\\s+(.+?)/i', $string, $matches);
print_r($matches);

Expected output:

Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => one randomText two randomText ) [1] => Array ( [0] => randomText ) [2] => Array ( [0] => randomText ) );

Actual output:

Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => one randomText two r ) [1] => Array ( [0] => randomText ) [2] => Array ( [0] => r ) );

Upvotes: 0

Views: 39

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785128

You can use:

preg_match_all('/one\s+(.+?)\s+two\s+(.+)/i', $string, $matches);

No need to use non-greedy (lazy) quantifier here in the end which will otherwise match as little as possible (more than one) hence matches only r.

Upvotes: 4

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