Sweet Sweet Regex... (Breaking up URL)

[drbigfresh]

I don't know why I even bother with Regex...way above my head. I am trying to extract some data from a url, and am not having much luck with it.

 

The URLs are in this format (with no trailing slash at the very end and no defined length for the username or IDNumber):

'http://domain.com/[username]/updates/[iDNumber]'

e.g. 'http://domain.com/drbigfresh/updates/546872'

 

Is there anyway to regex the username and IDNumber out into two separate variable?

 

Thanks,

Scott.

 

[c4onastick]

Yep. Here's how I'd go about this:

preg_match('%\.com/([^/]+)/updates/(\d+)%', $text, $matches);

 

$matches is an array containing the entire match, username, and ID.

Cheers!