extracting part of string (2)

I tried to ask this yesterday but made it sound more complicated than it is and i think no-one understood me.

Given a string of the form
"[place]hotel ref 12345"

how can I echo just the 'place' part and lose the '[',']', and 'lovely hotel'

Cheers

 

please give a better example of what you want.

 

I get sent an XML file containing information about travel resorts. One of the bits of information is like

[place]hotel ref 12345

eg [New York]5th Avenue hotel

but I need to print out the 'place' part of the field without the rest of the information. ie I only want New York without the [ or ] or '5th Avenue hotel'

so at the moment I have $place='[New York]5th Avenue hotel'
but I only want $place='New York'

 

$place='[New York]5th Avenue hotel';

$a = explode(']',$place);
$b = explode('[',$a[0]);

echo $b[1];   //<---- New York 

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That looks exactly what I was looking for
Thanks!

 

One more solution may help too.

regards