Re: Matching

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 21:33 -0500, Eric Butera wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Ron Piggott <ron.php@actsministries.org> wrote: >> > How do I determine the value of tx from this string? >> > >> > >> > page/words_from_the_well_checkout/?tx=8UM53005HH344951T&st=Completed&amt=0.01 >> > >> > My desired answer is: 8UM53005HH344951T >> > >> > I am trying to capture the serial number which follows tx= and ends >> > immediately before the & >> > >> > Ron >> > >> >> http://us.php.net/parse_str >> >> -- >> http://www.voom.me | EFnet: #voom >> > Go regular expressions... > > /tx=([^\&]+)/ > > then do a preg_match with the string using the $matches array argument. > $matches[1] should be your value. > > > Ash > www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > There really isn't a need to even try to build something like that when something already exists exactly for the purpose. It's well documented too. Plus after this part works, there's probably a good chance we'd be looking for that second variable. =) -- http://www.voom.me | EFnet: #voom