note 107958 added to function.preg-match

Simple function to return a sub-string following the preg convention. Kind of expensive, and some might say lazy but it has saved me time. # preg_substr($pattern,$subject,[$offset]) function # @author aer0s # return a specific sub-string in a string using # a regular expression # @param $pattern regular expression pattern to match # @param $subject string to search # @param [$offset] zero based match occurrence to return # # [$offset] is 0 by default which returns the first occurrence, # if [$offset] is -1 it will return the last occurrence function preg_substr($pattern,$subject,$offset=0){ preg_match_all($pattern,$subject,$matches,PREG_PATTERN_ORDER); return $offset==-1?array_pop($matches[0]):$matches[0][$offset]; } example: $pattern = "/model(\s|-)[a-z0-9]/i"; $subject = "Is there something wrong with model 654, Model 732, and model 43xl or is Model aj45B the preferred choice?"; echo preg_substr($pattern,$subject); echo preg_substr($pattern,$subject,1); echo preg_substr($pattern,$subject,-1); Returns something like: model 654 Model 732 Model aj45B ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 70.43.223.178 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/107958 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107958/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107958/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107958/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107958/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107958/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107958/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107958 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/107958 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php