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Alê Moraes
Alê Moraes

Reputation: 175

Capture two parts of the same string with PHP

I have a list with this structure

Boss: (test 23, of 2014)

Boss: (test 42, of 2015)

Boss: (test 70, of 2016)

How can I capture the numbers in the string and wrap then in spans? So the structure will end like this:

Boss: (test <span class="test_23">23</span>, of <span class="year_2014">2014<span>)

Boss: (test <span class="test_42">42</span>, of <span class="year_2014">2015<span>)

Boss: (test <span class="test_70">70</span>, of <span class="year_2016">2014<span>)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 36

Answers (2)

Eiko
Eiko

Reputation: 25632

You can get away with this one-liner:

$input = "Boss: (test 23, of 2014)";

$output = preg_replace(
    '/Boss: \(test (\d+), of (\d{4,4})\)/',
    'Boss: (test <span class="test_$1">$1</span>, of <span class="year_$2">$2<span>)',
    $input);

You might want to make this fault-tolerant regarding white space, i.e. use \s+ instead of hard coded spaces to allow for multiple whitespaces, tabs etc.

Upvotes: 1

JOUM
JOUM

Reputation: 239

This function can help here

step one:

preg_replace('# ([0-9]{2}),#','<span class="test_$1">$1</span>',$input);

step two:

preg_replace('# ([0-9]{4})#','<span class="year_$1">$1</span>',$input);

Upvotes: 2

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