Extracting a string from a string - stuck!

[ghostwalkz]

Hi all,

 

I have a string:

 

$foo = "blahblahblahrandomstuff {youtube}imdKQ3NNnoM{/youtube} moreblahblahblahrandomstuff";

 

I need to extract the 'imdKQ3NNnoM' from inside the {youtube} tags.

 

Any ideas - a code example would be muchly appreciated.

 

[premiso]

Is that how the string is actually formatted? If not then post the actual string you want to parse, without that we are shooting blanks.

[ghostwalkz]

thats it, anything outside the youtube tag is random and can change. The constant is the tag. I need to extract whats in that tag. Thanks in advance. :-)

 

[premiso]

REGEX might be better but this will also work.

 

<?php
$foo = "blahblahblahrandomstuff {youtube}imdKQ3NNnoM{/youtube} moreblahblahblahrandomstuff";

list($before) = explode("{/youtube}", $foo);
list(,$before) = explode("{youtube}", $before);

echo $before;
?>

 

Now you may have to escape the { and } if it gives you an error to be \{youtube\}  but give that a try and see.

[ghostwalkz]

Perfect, works great (no escape ness), thankyou, thanks, gracias, muchos gracias, etc etc.

[premiso]

Glad to hear.

 

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