newbie question about preg_match
| From: | Al | Date: | Thu, 20 May 2004 16:24:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | newbie question about preg_match | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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I'm trying to compose a general purpose text snip expression to extract a text segment from a string.
Should this work for all reasonable cases? It seems to work for several test strings.
$start= "str1";
$end= "str2";
preg_match ("|$start (.*) ? $end |i", $contents, $text);
$segment= $text[1];
Thanks....