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Shaonline
Shaonline

Reputation: 1637

Get substrings after each colon-ended label from a string without delimiters

I have the following string in PHP.

"File:content/resources/11933/Calm_Nebula_by_The_Free_Mason.jpgDate:Fri Mar 18 11:30:17 CET 2016Size:23124"

I need to fetch file, date, and size separately.

What is the best way to extract the required values?

explode() OR substring()

Explode requires some common value, substring requires start and end. In both cases I am a bit confused.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 344

Answers (1)

Akam
Akam

Reputation: 1052

Try this:

<?php
$text = "File:content/resources/11933/Calm_Nebula_by_The_Free_Mason.jpgDate:Fri Mar 18 11:30:17 CET 2016Size:23124";
$pattern = '/file:(.*?)date:(.*?)size:(.*)/i';
preg_match($pattern, $text, $out);
print_r($out);
?>

Output:

Array
(
    [0] => File:content/resources/11933/Calm_Nebula_by_The_Free_Mason.jpgDate:Fri Mar 18 11:30:17 CET 2016Size:23124 
    [1] => content/resources/11933/Calm_Nebula_by_The_Free_Mason.jpg
    [2] => Fri Mar 18 11:30:17 CET 2016
    [3] => 23124
)

Demo: https://3v4l.org/OcSXH

Upvotes: 4

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