[SOLVED] Copy everything between x and y?

[Kerosene]

I'm trying to do what I figure is the opposite of preg_replace.

I need to copy everything between two constant/known words in a string, e.g

 

$string = "I am going to the market to buy eggs and bacon for breakfast";

or

$string = "I am going to the market to buy fruit for breakfast";

 

 

How can I get 'eggs and bacon', or 'fruit', or whatever else is in between 'buy' and 'for breakfast'?

[skali]

<?php 
function get_in_between($haystack,$from, $to){
  $str = substr($haystack,strpos($haystack,$from)+strlen($from),strpos($haystack,$to));
  $str = substr($str,0,strpos($str,$to));
  return $str;
}  
  

print get_in_between("I am going to the market to buy eggs and bacon for breakfast",'buy','for');
print get_in_between("I am going to the market to buy fruit for breakfast",'buy','for');
?>

[mjlogan]

or something like, should work too for your example, you could modify it to work with another strings, basically as shown above 

 

$string = "I am going to the market to buy eggs and bacon for breakfast";

echo substr($string, stripos($string, 'buy')+4, stripos($string, 'for breakfast')-strlen($string));

$string = "I am going to the market to buy fruit for breakfast";

echo substr($string, stripos($string, 'buy')+4, stripos($string, 'for breakfast')-strlen($string));

[Kerosene]

Thank you both! I've been wondering about this for months, and previously doing it in such a horrible way (about 30 lines of php!).