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Junior
Junior

Reputation: 12002

How to search for a matching pattern in PHP?

I am trying to search a string for a pattern in the format

{{ Control :: 123 }}
or
{{Control::123}}
or
{{ Control ::123 }}
or
{{Control :: 123}}

Basically the space can be anywhere but it will have to start with the double open curly brackets, followed for the word "Control" followed by :: followed by a number ending with double closing curly brackets.

Here is what I have done

$pattern = '/{{ ?% ?Control ?:: ?([1-9]+([0-9]{1,2})?) ?% ?}}/i';
$subject = 'This is my subject for "{{ Control:: 132}}" ';

$matches = [];
preg_match_all($pattern, $subject, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE);

print_r($matches);

I need to be able to return the found pattern i.e {{ Control:: 132}}. Then I need to be able to find the number 132

What am I doing wrong here for this not to work?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 29

Answers (1)

cFreed
cFreed

Reputation: 4482

Your regex doesn't work because you didn't escape "{" and "}".Additionally you can write it more simply.
Try this:

$pattern = '/\{\{\s?Control\s?::\s?(\d+)\s?\}\}/i';

Note that it might be enhanced to accept more than 1 space everywhere:

$pattern = '/\{\{\s*Control\s*::\s*(\d+)\s*\}\}/i';

Upvotes: 2

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