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orourkedd
orourkedd

Reputation: 6421

PHP Regular Expression: string from inside brackets

I have a string:

$a = "Name[value]";

How do I get the 'Name' and 'value' portions of string into variables from this string? I'm not that great at regular expressions. Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2088

Answers (3)

The Mask
The Mask

Reputation: 17477

Try this:

 <?php
$a = "Name[value]";
preg_match('/(?<name>.*?)\[(?<value>.*[^\]]+)/', $a, $matched); 
 echo '<pre>'; 
 print_r($matched);
?>

output: 

Array
(
    [0] => Name[value
    [name] => Name
    [1] => Name
    [value] => value
    [2] => value
)

Upvotes: 1

MyStream
MyStream

Reputation: 2553

<?php

/**
 * Regex Quick Extraction - ignore $matches[0];
 */

$a = "Name[value]";

preg_match('/([^\]]*)\[([^\]]*)\]/',$a,$matches);

if(count($matches) > 0) {
    print_r($matches);
}

?>

Upvotes: 1

Johannes Fahrenkrug
Johannes Fahrenkrug

Reputation: 44836

so this should do the trick for you:

(.*)\[(.*)\]

This is the PHP syntax:

<?php
$subject = "Name[value]";
$pattern = '/(.*)\[(.*)\]/';
preg_match($pattern, $subject, $matches);
print_r($matches);
?>

Output:

Array
(
    [0] => Name[value]
    [1] => Name
    [2] => value
)

Enjoy.

Upvotes: 10

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