Re: Showing only part of string

Dave Carrera wrote:

$string = "This is a test string to <title>SHOW ONLY THIS BIT</title> of the string"; I have tried strpos, str_replace and other string manipulation things but I cant get my head around how to achieve showing the text with the <title></title> tags of the string. Any help is appreciated and I thank you in advance for any help given.

    $b = strpos($str,'<title>')+7;
    $l = strpos($str,'</title>') - $b;
    $m = substr($str,$b,$l);

Sure, you can use regular expressions, but there's not really a need unless this gets more complex. Even though you're executing more code with this solution, it'll be faster than preg_match() (go ahead and benchmark it). -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professionals – www.phparch.com