[SOLVED] select a substring between two characters

[anatak]

Is is possible to select a substring between two characters ?

I have a list of pictures and I want to extract the number of the picture from the picture name.

example name of picture is

picture_3.jpg

picture_15.jpg

So I want to extract the 3 from the first and 15 from the second.

Is this possible in 1 time or do I have to write a substring select that extracts everything after _ and after that a substring select that extracts everything before .

 

Kind regards

anatak

[Daniel0]

Assuming they're always named like that you can do this:

 

preg_match('#_(\d+)\.jpg$#', $filename, $matches);
$number = $matches[1];

[anatak]

aaarghhh regular expressions (just joking)

Thanks this is why I love this forum I always find someone who shows me how stupid I am.

I was so concentrated on the substr, strrchr and trim functions it did not even occur to me that I could use a regular expression.

 

Thanks

anatak

[laffin]

Yeah, regex is real good. Just takes time to learn tho. But once ya get the basics, man is it ever so helpful