CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phpstringsubstringtext-extraction
user5903788
user5903788

Reputation: 9

Get phrase from middle of a string between two particular characters

I want to extract a portion of a string between two points in a string.

My input string is {you: awesome; feeling good}

I want to get the words feeling good between ; and } using PHP.

Upvotes: -1

Views: 282

Answers (4)

mickmackusa
mickmackusa

Reputation: 48073

By using a regex pattern, you avoid needing to generate a temporary array or performing separate extraction and sanitization steps.

Code: (Demo)

$string = "{you: awesome; feeling good}";
echo preg_replace('/[^;]*; ([^}]*).*/', '$1', $string);
// feeling good

The pattern matches the entire string.

Start matching zero or more non-semicolon characters, then a space. Then capture zero or more non-closing-parenthesis characters. Then match the rest of the string. Replace the full string with the captured middle segment.

Upvotes: 0

devpro
devpro

Reputation: 16117

You can use explode() in PHP for split string.

Example 1:

$string = '{you: awesome; feeling good}'; // your string
preg_match('/{(.*?)}/', $string, $match); // match inside the {}
$exploded = explode(";",$match[1]); // explode with ;
echo $exploded[1]; // feeling good

Example 2:

$string = '{you: awesome; feeling good}'; // your string
$exploded = explode(";", $string);  // explode with ;
echo rtrim($exploded[1],"}"); // rtrim to remove ending }

Upvotes: 0

Ashish Jivani
Ashish Jivani

Reputation: 96

Other option would be....

$str = "{you: awesome; feeling good}";
$str = trim($str,"{}");
echo substr($str,strpos($str,";")+1);

Upvotes: 0

Dmytro Huz
Dmytro Huz

Reputation: 1554

$arr = explode(';', trim("{you: awesome; feeling good}", '{}'));
$feel_good_string = trim($arr[1]);
echo $feel_good_string;

Upvotes: 3

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