Help searching string

[rdrews]

I need a function that will search a string and return the contents of the string between two other strings.  For example:

 

$str = "1234567 this is a test and I want this text 999999";

$start = "1234567";

$end = "999999";

 

$textIWant = " this is a test and I want this text ";

 

So basically I have a huge string and I want to search it for some starting string and copy all the contents between the starting string and a defined ending string into another variable.

 

Can this be done easily?

 

Thanks

[cags]

Lots of ways to do it, here's one.

 

$start = preg_quote('1234567', '#');
$end =  preg_quote('999999', '#');
$str = "1234567 this is a test and I want this text 999999";

preg_match("#{$start}(.*?){$end}#s", $str, $out);

print_r($out);

[rdrews]

Lots of ways to do it, here's one.

 

$start = preg_quote('1234567', '#');
$end =  preg_quote('999999', '#');
$str = "1234567 this is a test and I want this text 999999";

preg_match("#{$start}(.*?){$end}#s", $str, $out);

print_r($out);

 

Cags!!!  Thanks for the help again.  I'm still working through the problem I was having a few days ago and I'm using both of your solutions to get through it.  I think I've finally got it working now.  Thanks again!