Preg_Match help

[timmah1]

I'm trying to show the Minus whatever if a team was found, meaning, I only want to show Minus 5 of this sentence

New Orleans Saints Minus 5 Total 45, if the team matches.

 

So I did this

<?php
		  if (preg_match("/\b$a[team1]\b/i", "$a[overunder]")) {
					echo "A match was found.";
				} else {
					echo "A match was not found.";
				}
			?>

 

Now, how do I get it to only show Minus 5 of that sentence, and not the whole sentence?

The number will always be different, but the word Minus will always be there

 

Thanks in advance

 

[gevans]

Try that and see if you get the required result;

 

<?php
$pattern = '/Minus [0-9]+/';
$ubject = $a[overunder];
preg_match($pattern, $subject, $matches);
print_r($matches);

[corbin]

First off, you have a few iffy-basics:

 

Should be:

 

 

if (preg_match("/\b{$a['team1']}\b/i", $a['overunder'])) {

 

 

(The {} are mainly personal preference in this situation, but in some contexts they are required.)

 

 

Will $a['overunder'] always contain "<team> Minus X Total Y"?

 

If so:

 

if (preg_match("/minus ([\d]+) total ([\d]+)/i", $a['overunder'], $m)) {

    print_r($m);

}

 

 

(That assumes that the full string will match the format from earlier.  In other words, it assumes only 1 team is in the string at a time.)

[timmah1]

Perfect!

one more question, how do I format that?

 

I don't want it to show

Array ( [0] => Minus 5 )

[timmah1]

the overunder will always contain a team name and always have the word Minus in it

[bluesoul]

echo $m[0];

[gevans]

instead of;

 

print_r($whatever_variable);

 

use

 

echo $whatever_variable[0];

[timmah1]

One more question,

this statement

$pattern = '/Minus [0-9]+/';

only goes up to the number 9 correct?

Sometimes it might be as high as 60, when I change the 9 to 60, nothing shows

[corbin]

instead of;

 

print_r($whatever_variable);

 

use

 

echo $whatever_variable[0];

 

 

 

The first value always contains the entire string matched.  He would want to use 1 and 2.

 

 

 

Also, if you'll read my post, timmah, you'll see that I gave a pattern that will extract minus and total, and it will handle any number of digits.

[timmah1]

I used the code you supplied corbin, but I get no results now

<?php
			if (preg_match("/\b{$a['team1']}\b/i", $a['overunder'])) {
					if (preg_match("/minus ([\d]+) total ([\d]+)/i", $a['overunder'], $m)) {
					print_r($m);
					}
				} 

			?>

 

Did I implement that wrong?

[gevans]

@corbin, I was refering to the code that I'd written as he only wanted the minus part

[gevans]

Also, that pattern should (and doesn from my test) match as many integers are necessary

[timmah1]

Thank you for your help gevans and corbin

 

Your code gevans does exactly what I need it to do, I just want to make sure that if the minus is 22, it will still show

 

Thanks again

[gevans]

It shouldn't need any changes, but to force it to work you can just add a space to the end of the pattern;

 

 

$pattern = '/Minus [0-9]+ /';