[SOLVED] Extract text from string

[simonp]

Hi folks,

 

I have a string that looks like this:

 

aaaaaaaaaa:

bbbbbbbbbb (ccccccccc) ddddddddddddddddddddd

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

(format can't be changed - lengths of strings will vary) and I need to extract the c's that are inside the brackets.

 

How could I do this?

 

Cheers

 

Simon

[Daniel0]

preg_match('#\(([^)]+)\)#', $string, $matches);

 

Should do it. See the contents of $matches.

[JAY6390]

preg_match('%\(([^\)]+)%', $input, $matches);
echo $matches[1];

 

Edit: Too slow

[JonnoTheDev]

Without regex

<?php
$string = "aaaaaaaaaa: bbbbbbbbbb (ccccccccc) ddddddddddddddddddddd eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee";
$string = substr($string,0,strpos($string,")"));
print substr($string, strpos($string,"(")+1, strlen($string));
?>

[simonp]

Thanks everyone - you're brilliant!