Weird preg_match problems ! Need some help.

String :

fmt_map=22%2F2000000%2F9%2F0%2F115%2C34%2F0%

Code (markup):

What I need to do is to get the first number. In this case, I need to get "22" ( number can be anything - it can be 5, it can be 22, or even 150 ).

I've the following preg_match :

preg_match('/fmt_map\=(.*)%/', $content, $fmt);

PHP:

Now, the problem is that it does not return me the right value ! Instead of returning 22, it returns the whole ( most part of it ) string.
Any solutions ?

 

May be this is not the right solution.but what i will do is
$fmt_map=22%2F2000000%2F9%2F0%2F115%2C34%2F0%
$values=explode("%",$fmt_map);
echo $values[0];
Still i am saying this is not the solution what you expected.
But try this.

 

Well, I could do it in 5 other ways as well ! I just want to keep my code as clean as possible and do things in the right way
Anyway, thanks for help !

Still looking for someone who have an idea on how to fix this.

 

For fmt_map at the beginnin ( else '#^\w=(\d+)#' )

$content='fmt_map=22%2F2000000%2F9%2F0%2F115%2C34%2F0%';
$arr=array();
if (preg_match('#^fmt_map=(\d+)#',$content,&$arr)) echo $arr[1];

PHP:

Regards

 

Thank you, works great

 

or you could just use explode for % and then get the first value .. but if that works

 

Someone already mentioned it ( and I already knew that I can do in that way as well ), but thanks anyway