How would you achieve this?

[Jeffro]

How would you grab the 2nd, 3rd and 4th characters in a string that always immediately followed .com (keeping in mind they would always be different characters)? 

[fugix]

you could use regular expressions to achieve this

preg_match('/\.com(.{3})/', $string, $matches);
echo $matches[1];

 

Edit: forgot to mention, your $string variable would be the URL

[cunoodle2]

Well first thing that you need to do is to get the location of the ".com" in the string. You would do that like this..

<?php
$pos = strpos($string, '.com', 1);
?>

 

From there you could use the substring function to get the remaining letters like this..

<?php
//right now the value of "$pos" is beginning of the '.com'
//we need to increase it by 5 to adjust for the length of the .com as well as scrapping the 1st letter like you requested
$pos = $pos +5;
$result = substr($string, $pos, 3);
echo $result;
?>

[Jeffro]

Thx guys.  I combined both of your solutions to make it work.  Since the first example provided the first 3 characters only and I needed 2, 3, and 4, I used it.. and then used strpos to get what I needed from that. 

 

Many thanks! 

[fugix]

i misread your post, so if you wanted to use my code i will revise to be exactly what you want, the second third and fourth characters after the .com, im assuming that you do not want the forward slash

preg_match('/\.com\/(.{3})/', $string, $matches);
echo $matches[1];

[Jeffro]

i misread your post, so if you wanted to use my code i will revise to be exactly what you want, the second third and fourth characters after the .com, im assuming that you do not want the forward slash

preg_match('/\.com\/(.{3})/', $string, $matches);
echo $matches[1];

 

Cool.. even easier.  Thanks for the help.  Much appreciated!  Works great. 

[fugix]

i misread your post, so if you wanted to use my code i will revise to be exactly what you want, the second third and fourth characters after the .com, im assuming that you do not want the forward slash

preg_match('/\.com\/(.{3})/', $string, $matches);
echo $matches[1];

 

Cool.. even easier.  Thanks for the help.  Much appreciated!  Works great.

no problem at all, glad it worked for you