Re: regular expression to extract from the middle of a string

On 7/14/06, Steve Turnbull <steve.turnbull@yhgfl.net> wrote:

I have a string similar to the following; cn=emailadmin,ou=services,dc=domain,dc=net I want to extract whatever falls between the 'cn=' and the following comma - in this case 'emailadmin'.

$pattern= "/[^=]+=([^,]+)/"; preg_match($pattern, $string, $matches); print_r($matches); Voila! (Untested for now, I'm pretty drunk so sorry if it ain't workin out like you want to) -- Kim Christensen