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J.Rob
J.Rob

Reputation: 436

PHP regular expression returns blank array

Problem : I need u69ruczh as output this from below code

$string = '<a data-mce-href="{{file:u69ruczh}}" href="{{file:u69ruczh}}">pptexamples.ppt</a>';

Generated output :

Array ( [0] => Array ( ) )

I have tried below code :

$string = '<a data-mce-href="{{file:u69ruczh}}" href="{{file:u69ruczh}}">pptexamples.ppt</a>';
$url = preg_match_all('/href=[\{\{file:(.*?)\}\}]/', $string, $match);
print_r($match);

Please assist me where did it goes wrong

Upvotes: 0

Views: 51

Answers (2)

Ashish Choudhary
Ashish Choudhary

Reputation: 2034

This could be done simply using below regex.

$url = preg_match_all('/file\:([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/', $string, $match);

Upvotes: 1

Silencio
Silencio

Reputation: 175

If this format is standard this solution should also get you the desired output:

$string = '<a data-mce-href="{{file:u69ruczh}}" href="{{file:u69ruczh}}">pptexamples.ppt</a>';
$arr = explode(":",$string);
$substr = $arr[1];
$subarr = explode("}",$substr);
$finalstr = $subarr[0];
echo $finalstr;
// Output: u69ruczh

Upvotes: 1

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