Reg ex Problem - Extract the string inside

[supernoobie]

 

I need help if Reg ex is able to extract the string,

 

Here's my problem.

 

I want to extract the string inside the word "View" and ends in "return".

Sample:

  string = "View John Doe return"

 

I want to get the result "John Doe"

 

Is this possible in Regex?

 

Thanks In advance! 

 

 

 

 

[ILMV]

Try this:

 

$string="View Joe Bloggs return,, View James May return random text here View Bill Clinton return";
preg_match_all('/View\s([\w]+)\s([\w]+)\sreturn/',$string,$test);
echo("<pre>".print_r($test,true)."</pre>");

 

 

ILMV

[Garethp]

That's a bit complicated. If I understand correctly, all he needs is

 

preg_match_all('~^View (.*+) return$~', $string, $Matches);

[Adam]

That's a bit complicated. If I understand correctly, all he needs is

 

preg_match_all('~^View (.*+) return$~', $string, $Matches);

 

(.*+) should be: (.*?) or (.+?), depending on whether it must match '0 or more' characters or '1 or more', respectively.

 

Edit: Also I can't see any real real point in using preg_match_all() with the start and end of string anchors.

[supernoobie]

Thanks to all of you!!

 

what if the name is separated with. coma like "View John,Doe ;return"

 

All input is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks a lot.

[Adam]

Try this:

 

$str = 'View John,Doe ;return';

if (preg_match('/View(.*?);return/i', $str, $matches))
{
    print_r($matches);
}

 

You'll need to trim each match to remove any white space issues, but if this is user entered data you'd probably be better off trimming the data anyway; in-case they entered multiple spaces by accident. If this isn't user entered data you may wish to add the spaces back in like on the other examples.

 

I've also added the 'i' modifier to make the expression case-insensitive - again if it's user entered data it's probably a good idea.

[supernoobie]

Thanks A lot Mr. Adam,

 

What if I want to get the the Age and the name like.  "View John,Doe ;return  Age:24" 

 

is this possible???

 

Again, thanks a lot for all of your help.

[nrg_alpha]

supernoobie.. I'm noticing a time wasting trend here.. you keep adding new circumstances after the previous solution. Perhaps providing the entire set of circumstances in your original post would be better, as this saves people time from having to constantly refine solutions... otherwise, in theory, you can keep creating new requests one after the other, which could all have been solved earlier on.