Help with Character extraction

[mcmuney]

I'm trying to pull a certain number of characters after a specific character. For example:

 

$data="x=1234567"

 

I'd like to pull 7 characters after "x=". So the result whould be "1234567".

 

I couldn't use strpos because the 7 characters will NOT always begin from the 3rd character. For example, it could be "x=" or "tyx=" or "1x=", etc. I only want what's after "x=".

 

Thanks.

[Jessica]

Use explode and substr.

[Christian F.]

What's wrong with just substr (), I mean if you know you always want 7 characters?

php > $data="x=1234567";
php > echo substr ($data, -7);
1234567

 

Otherwise, you can use strpos () to find the position of the equals sign, and send that value to substr ().