Extract text between curly braces - why doesn't my code work?

[extrovertive]

$text = "wow {one|two|three}fsasfa happy ness";

preg_match('/\b{*+}\b/i', $text, $matches);

print_r($matches);

 

Basically, $matches will contain "one|two|three" - but all I got is an array with "}"

 

[QuickOldCar]

Might be easier way, but I just did it like this.

 

<?php
$text = "wow {one|two|three}fsasfa happy ness";
$matches = array();
preg_match_all('#\{.*?\}|[^ ]+#', $text, $matches);

foreach ($matches[0] as $word) {
    $v = array();
    if (preg_match('#^\{(.*)\}$#', $word, $v)) {
        echo '<strong>' . htmlspecialchars($v[1]) . '</strong>';
    } else {
        echo htmlspecialchars($word);
    }
    echo '<br />';
  
}

?>

 

Results be

wow

one|two|three

fsasfa

happy

ness

 

Now can do anything you want with the matching values

[PaulRyan]

Hope I am not imposing, but this would work too.

 

<?PHP

  $text   = "wow {one|two|three}fsasfa happy ness";
  $newTxt = explode('{',$text);
  $result = array();

  if(count($newTxt) > 1) {
    foreach($newTxt AS $value) {
      if(strstr($value,'}')) {
        $value    = explode('}',$value);
        $result[] = $value[0];
      }
    }

  print_r($result);

  } else {
    echo 'No Results';
  }
?>

 

This assumes that all text between { AND } needs to be retrieved.

 

Try it out and tell me how it goes

 

Regards, PaulRyan.

[AbraCadaver]

preg_match('/{([^}]+)}/i', $text, $matches);