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Pratik Jaiswal
Pratik Jaiswal

Reputation: 299

Extract version number from a delimited string

I wish to extract:

8.4 from a PHP string ASD - 8.4 - iOS - P-CT and

8.3.1 from ASD - 8.3.1 - Android - P-QL.

Tried using floatval($var) but it does not work all the times - for example, if I want to use it for both of my use cases. Are there any other ways to fetch such custom numbers from the PHP string?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 44

Answers (2)

Mohammad
Mohammad

Reputation: 21489

Use regex to select target digit from string. Run your regex by php preg_match().

$str = "ASD - 8.4 - iOS - P-CT";
preg_match("/[\d.]+/", $str, $matches);
echo $matches[0];

Check code result in demo

Upvotes: 2

Alex Howansky
Alex Howansky

Reputation: 53626

explode() is probably your best bet here. Set your delimiter to - and you'll get back an array of the four parts:

$str = 'ASD - 8.4 - iOS - P-CT';
$parts = explode(' - ', $str);
print_r($parts);

Output:

Array
(
    [0] => ASD
    [1] => 8.4
    [2] => iOS
    [3] => P-CT
)

Upvotes: 3

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