Return just part of a string in php

Description: Very useful in most occasions

Version: 1.0

Added on: 24 February 2007

Author: unkown

Difficulty Level: Very Easy

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Basically, we have a long string:

Quote:

bla bla bla bla I want this info bla bla bla bla

We want to cut out the part that says 'I want this info'.
Simply use the eregi function like below:

Code:

$string = '<aa>bla bla</aa><br><bb>bla bla</bb><br><cc>I want this info</cc><br><dd>bla bla</dd><br><ee>bla bla</ee><br>'; $string = eregi('<cc>(.*)</cc>', $string, $data); echo $data[1];

The important part of this tutorial is the
(.*) code that lies between:

Code:

'<cc>(.*)</cc>'

What that does is simply grab everything in between and tags.

Pretty simple? More info can be found at www.php.net/eregi