Getting everything between 2 words in a string

[TexasMd91]

Lets say I have a string with the value

"Robots > Bunnies"

 

Is there any way that I could get everything between "robots" and "bunnies" and put it into its own string

 

Example:

 

<?php
function getInBetween($string, $before, $after, $newstring)
  {
  //function to get whats between $before and $after from $string and put it in $newstring
  }

getInBetween("My name is Mark.","My name is ", ".", $name);
?>

 

SO it would get what is between "My name is " and "." so it would get my name.

 

 

Ofcourse this is just an example and not what I am using it for

 

[rarebit]

It's vulgar, but...

function get_mid($s, $start, $end)
{
return trim(substr($s, strlen($start), -(strlen($end))));
}

$ss = "test name test";
$n = get_mid($ss, "test", "test");
echo "name: ".$n."<br>";

You could count the strings first and pass the length, esp if repeated!

[Psycho]

<?php

$subject = "My Name is Bob Hope.";
$pattern = '/My Name is(.*?)\./';
preg_match($pattern, $subject, $matches);
print_r($matches);

?>

 

Output:

Array
(
   [0] => My Name is Bob Hope.
   [1] => Bob Hope
)