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@NogDogFeb 12.2021 — #If I'm understanding correctly, and if there could be multiple matches within the string, I suppose you could do something like:
Dumping
Hey, it's a slow evening. But then this opens up the possibility of having to explain regular expressions (regex), which might be more confusing than OOP.
How To Dump To Array All Chars Inbetween 2 Chars or Symbols ?
Folks,
Not gonna beat round the bush anymore.
Gonna ask you direct.
How to extract what is inside brackets providing certain chars exist inside the brackets ?
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Bog Off!
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Get Lost!
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Look at the two above brackets. Imagine I only want to extract what is inside the brackets if the pattern “g o” exist. If condition met. In this example, everything inbetween
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from the first set should be dumped into $extract = array().
How to do this ?
Ok dumping into array not that hard but how to get PHP to:
1. Check what is inbetween two tags or what is inbetween two chars and2. How to extract all data from within the two tags.Opening tag and closing tag. Or two chars ?
Imagine, I got this string:
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Gonna kick your backside to Kingdom Come you King Kong!
Now imagine, I want to dump into array all chars that are in-between the “Gonna” and “to” (opening word and closing word). Which PHP function to use ? Don’t tell me Knees to use a bunch of functions more than one. substring, implode, explode, str_pos etc. Too much headache to do things the long way.
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@NogDogFeb 12.2021 — #If I'm understanding correctly, and if there could be multiple matches within the string, I suppose you could do something like:<i>
</i>$extract = array();
$test = "This is just a test of PHP. It is only a test.";
// match between "is " and " test":
preg_match_all('/bis (.+?) testb/i', $test, $matches);
$extract = array_merge($extract, $matches[1]);
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$extract<i>
</i>array (
0 => 'just a',
1 => 'only a',
)
Hey, it's a slow evening. But then this opens up the possibility of having to explain regular expressions (regex), which might be more confusing than OOP.