If any integer is in this spot

[CitizenErased]

Hi i'm trying to get out a sub string from multiple pages where i'm using a start point string that looks like this "(integer)" where "integer is different every time. Is there any way I can tell it that its just an integer there so if its "(3)" on one page and "(10)" on another page it will start from the same spot?

[Pikachu2000]

Huh?

[Phpfr3ak]

Yea, can you phrase this better, as currently makes no sense. can possibly help then.

[Psycho]

Sounds like you are parsing some text and are wanting to use the "(NUMBER)" as a reference point. You will likely want to use regular expression (preg_match() I'm assuming)

 

You could either use a regular expression to extract out the content you want or, if you want to use string functions but just need to know the position, you can use a regex to find the "(NUMBER)" value and use that value in your string functions.

[CitizenErased]

Yeah it didn't sound right when i was writing it

 

 

$Start = "(3)";

 

$End = "string";

 

$StartPos = strpos($content, $Start);

 

$EndPos = strpos($content, $End);

 

$SubString = substr($content, $StartPos, $EndPos - $StartPos );

 

 

where "3" in "(3)" will be changing to a different integer from page to page

[Psycho]

Well, you can dynamically find the start text using a regex and use your current logic

//Find first instance of ( decimal )
preg_match("#\(\d+\)#", $content, $startText);
$Start = $startText[0];

 

Or you can replace all of that logic with a single regular expression to return all the text that you need. I can provide that as well but need to know whether you need the start and end text in your results.