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Mike
Mike

Reputation: 980

How to find @username in a string?

What is the best way to find @username in a string?

At first I was exploding the string based on @'s found, but it seemed like a lot of trouble going through each of the instances.

Can I use regex for this to find all @usernames in a string?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1360

Answers (2)

Kaii
Kaii

Reputation: 20540

Yes of course. RegEx is the right way to go:

if (preg_match_all('!@(.+)(?:\s|$)!U', $text, $matches))
    $usernames = $matches[1];
else
    $usernames = array(); // empty list, no users matched

Upvotes: 2

Sudeep Mukherjee
Sudeep Mukherjee

Reputation: 71

you can use strpos() instead

for references http://php.net/manual/en/function.strpos.php

$pos = strpos($mystring, $findme);
if ($pos === false) {
echo "The string '$findme' was not found in the string '$mystring'";
} else {
echo "The string '$findme' was found in the string '$mystring'";
echo " and exists at position $pos";
}

Upvotes: 0

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