php regex help

[kurbsdude]

ok i have an expression that could look like these

id:1&user:100&age:23

or, (without the & before user)

user:100&age:23

or,

1252user:100&age:23

 

how do i extract 'user:100' from the above expressions?

thanks

[salathe]

$subject = "1252user:100&age:23";
preg_match('/user:\d+/', $subject, $match);
echo $match[0];

[kurbsdude]

thanks for the reply

but i missed one thing

 

when the expression is

user:100&age:23

or

1252user:100&age:23

 

i want to get user:100

 

but when the expression is id:1&user:100&age:23

 

i want to get &user:100

 

thanks

[cags]

That's easily fixed.

 

$subject = "1252user:100&age:23";
preg_match('/&?user:\d+/', $subject, $match);
echo $match[0];

[kurbsdude]

That's easily fixed.

 

$subject = "1252user:100&age:23";
preg_match('/&?user:\d+/', $subject, $match);
echo $match[0];

 

thanks a lot

btw how do i mark this thread as "solved"?

[nrg_alpha]

btw how do i mark this thread as "solved"?

 

This is how.

[cags]

But I don't have a button that glows red....