[SOLVED] Extracting the text between quotation marks

[lxndr]

I know this should be easy but I just can't get it to work.  What I want to do is process a string and extract just those characters between a pair of double quotes:

 

i.e. 

input string:      'blah blah', "text"

output string:    text

 

 

input string:      'some characters', "more text"

output string:    text

 

The input strings are read in from a text file.  Thanks for any help.

 

 

[obsidian]

Try this regexp:

<?php
$string = "'some text' \"more text\"";
if (preg_match('|(")([^"]+)\\1|', $string, $match)) {
  // Found a match:
  echo $match[2];
}
?>

[lxndr]

Try this regexp:

<?php
$string = "'some text' \"more text\"";
if (preg_match('|(")([^"]+)\\1|', $string, $match)) {
  // Found a match:
  echo $match[2];
}
?>

 

Thanks very much, that's working nicely ! 

 

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