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YahyaE
YahyaE

Reputation: 1057

PHP preg_match for getting a string part after the given optional substrings

I have several urls such as below and those contains -XX- letter and following xxxxxxxxx key in the end of the url.

http://vayes-eys.dev/shoe-for-ladies/high-hields/7-pont-with-silver-stripes-PD-0a8564q56

or 

http://vayes-eys.dev/news/europe/england/cricket-news/josh-darpant-is-on-the-way-to-rome-NS-e3q3s2wq4q

What I want to do is; first to check if -NS-, -PD- or -SP- exist in url, then get the -XX- part and the part after it,for example: e3q3s2wq4q.

What I have done so far is:

$path = "shoe-for-ladies/high-hields/7-pont-with-silver-stripes-PD-0a8564q56"

if (preg_match('/-PD-|-NS-|-SP-/',$path)) {
    preg_match("/(?<=(-PD-|-NS-|-SP-)).*/", $path, $match);
    print_r($match);
}

This gives me the following array but I am not sure if it is the right way.

array(
    0 => 0a8564q56
    1 => -PD-
)

What I need is PD and 0a8564q56. Thanks for any help.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 344

Answers (1)

Wiktor Stribiżew
Wiktor Stribiżew

Reputation: 627488

You may use 

'~-(NS|PD|SP)-([^-/]+)~'

or

'~-(NS|PD|SP)-([A-Za-z0-9]+)~'

See the regex demo

Details:

  • - - a literal hyphen
  • (NS|PD|SP) - Group 1 capturing one of the values: NS, PD or SP
  • - - a hyphen
  • ([^-/]+) - 1 or more characters other than - and / (the delimiters). If you only have letters and digits there, you may just use [a-zA-Z0-9]+ instead.

PHP demo:

$path = "shoe-for-ladies/high-hields/7-pont-with-silver-stripes-PD-0a8564q56";
preg_match('~-(NS|PD|SP)-([A-Za-z0-9]+)~', $path, $match);
print_r($match);

Your values are in Group 1 and 2.

Upvotes: 2

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