Need help putting this in regex

[newb]

<a href="user/237960-admin" class="username online"

 

how can i make it so i can grab only the username out of this?

[gizmola]

what part of that string is the username?

[newb]

'admin'

[JAY6390]

if (preg_match('%<a href="user/\d+-([^"]+)"%', $subject, $matches)) {
$result = $matches[1];
} else {
$result = "";
}

[newb]

thanks, that above code works, but it ignores the 'class="username online"' bit.

 

i included it at the end

[JAY6390]

fair enough. didn't think you'd need that if you have it only matching url's that start user/000000-username but yeah you can add that bit on too if you like