Re: Regular Expression
| From: | Christian Reiniger | Date: | Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:07:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Regular Expression | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Wednesday 18 April 2001 13:39, you wrote:
> I have this text:
>
> "[ this is atest ] and this is the rest of the text"
>
> I want to get the text inbetween the [ and ].
if (preg_match ('/\[([^\]])\]/', $Subject, $Matches)) {
echo "Found it : '" . $Matches [1] . "'";
}
looks a bit perverse (because the [] brackets have special meaning in
regular expressions), but you'll get used to it :)
Also have a look at the description of the perl regex syntax in the manual
--
Christian Reiniger
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