Last word before search pattern

[giventoflyfish]

I am trying to find the last word before a search pattern.  I tried preg_match without any luck.  I found something close online but it does a match for the first match for the pattern.

 

I know that I will always see , some # pressure.  I want that # right before the word pressure but there are a lot of , in the page.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

function get_string_between($string, $start, $end){
$string = " ".$string;
$ini = strpos($string,$start);
if ($ini == 0) return "";
$ini += strlen($start);
$len = strpos($string,$end,$ini) - $ini;
return substr($string,$ini,$len);
}

$fullstring = "today, Sat, 750 pressure";
$parsed = get_string_between($fullstring, ", ", "pressure");

 

[acefirefighter]

Can you post an example of the data you are trying to analyze, It would help greatly.

[dcro2]

I think you want to use strrpos instead of strpos. It searches for the last occurrence in a string.