[SOLVED] PHP string/text manipulation extract text that is within certain characters.

[Shaun]

Hi everyone 

been a long time since ive been around here.

 

anyhow I need a little help with something.

 

suppose I have a variable

 

$var = "-this is my var-";

 

how would i extract the text that is in between the "-" characters.. I am aware that I would need to use strpos() & strrpos() to do this but im really getting confused on how to actually do it.

 

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thank you! Shaun

[trq]

<?php

    $var = "-this is my var-";
    if (preg_match('/-(.*?)-/',$var,$m)) {
        echo $m[1];
    }  

?>

[Shaun]

I COULD KISS YOU!

 

thank you very much!