I hate preg_match!

[Rifts]

can someone please help me I need to get all the info between these two things

 

_MARKER_OBJ = [ (all this stuff) ]

 

thanks

[Rifts]

why doesnt this work

 

function getTextBetweenTags($string, $start, $end)
{
    $pattern = "/$start(.*?)$end/";
    preg_match($pattern, $string, $matches);
    return $matches[1];
}

$html = 'this is a bunch of nothing _MARKER_OBJ = [ get this crap ]';

$content = getTextBetweenTags($html, '_MARKER_OBJ = [', ']');

echo $content;

 

it just returns nothing, if I change the start to just _MARKER_OBJ it works though

[Rifts]

figured it out need to add \ before the [

 

so

$content = getTextBetweenTags($html, '_MARKER_OBJ = \[', ']');

 

works

[ragax]

Hi Rifts,

 

That's a neat little function that would solve about half of the requests for regex help on the www!!!

 

If I was building a library of extended preg functions, I would include that.

 

[JAY6390]

If you're wanting to restrict it to just text either side as the "tags" you could use

function getTextBetweenTags($string, $start, $end) {
$start = preg_quote($start, '~');
$end = preg_quote($end, '~');
$pattern = "~$start(.*?)$end~";

if(preg_match($pattern, $string, $matches)) {
	return $matches[1];
}

return false;
}

$html = 'this is a bunch of nothing _MARKER_OBJ = [ get this crap ]';

$content = getTextBetweenTags($html, '_MARKER_OBJ = [', ']');

echo $content;

 

That doesn't require you to escape the start/end tags as it escapes all regex syntax characters using preg_quote

[Rifts]

ohhhh cool I'm really new to regex but that is awesome to know!