Trying to get info between two strings of text

[chris_2001]

I have a string of text and I need to get what is in the middle of two specific things

 

 

Hello *wiki black end* everyone!

 

Using the above as an example how would I get php to get only black? Both the words Hello and everyone! will change to random things input by the user.

[Zane]

This question is better off in the Regex Forum..

I'll move it for you

[genericnumber1]

can you give us a couple examples of what the possibilities are in addition to this one you've showed us?

[chris_2001]

Literally anything with some of these tags

 

*vocab
*def
*wiki
*english
*spanish
end*

 

They are always ended with end*. I want to get the information between the beginning tag (*def etc.) and the end* tag.

 

Here are some random examples.

 

The light of a *wiki black light end* is a weird one

 

In this case I am trying to get "black light" out of the string.

 

*spanish la tarea end*

 

la tarea in this example

 

the first *vocab ionization energy end* is 1923kJ/mol

 

and in this case ionization energy. If you need anything else let me know.

[genericnumber1]

You could try

 

<?php
$str = 'The light of a *wiki black light end* is a weird one';
$matches = array();
preg_match_all('%\*[a-z]+\s(.*?)\send\*%', $str, $matches);
print_r($matches);
?>