Re: Help with REGEXP please
| From: | Leif Gregory | Date: | Fri, 04 Mar 2005 20:12:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Help with REGEXP please | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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Hello Shaun,
Friday, March 4, 2005, 12:54:34 PM, you wrote:
S> Please could someone tell me how i can extract the information from
S> a string that is after 'ID_' and before '_FN'
<?php
$myString = "ID_723456ABc_FN";
preg_match("/ID_([a-z0-9]+)_FN/i",$myString, $extracted);
echo $extracted[1];
?>
This will match any upper or lowercase letter and number. If you have
other characters like _ , etc, then you'll need to put those in
the [a-z0-9_,] too.
--
Leif (TB lists moderator and fellow end user).
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