Help using Regex to grab content between slashes.

Would anyone have a code to do the following?

Say my string is a URL:
domain.com/oranges/bananas/ccccKVj1w3q/test.jpg

How would I use regex to grab anything starting with /cccc

So the regex would output this:
ccccKVj1w3q

 

try this one

$str = 'domain.com/oranges/bananas/ccccKVj1w3q/test.jpg';
preg_match('|/(cccc.*?)/|',$str,$match);
print_r($match);

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Thank you so much for this! I'll test this out shorty here when I get on my PC

 

Depending on what you're trying to do, you can do this completely without a regex, and also regardless of the (seemingly) random output before the basename (filename).

$url = array_reverse(explode('/',pathinfo('domain.com/oranges/bananas/ccccKVj1w3q/test.jpg')['dirname']));
echo $url[0];

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I don't understand how that script is going to pinpoint the section of the slashes with the cccc. But I tried it anyways and it seemed to give an unexpected [ on line two where it says ['dirname'].

I tried this and it works perfectly for what I need. Thanks again!

 

My example uses pathinfo (a built-in PHP-function, but it depends on which version of PHP you're running) to return information about the path given - dirname is one of the return-items in the array, and gives 'domain.com/oranges/bananas/ccccKVj1w3q' in the example above. It then takes that string, and using '/' to explode it, creates an array of each item - since you want the last item in the array, we use array_reverse, and pick out [0] - the first item in the new array.
It works just fine, since I tested it before posting.
pathinfo should run fine on PHP-version above 4.0.3, so... if it's not working, I would take a look at which PHP-version you're running

 

The parse error comes likely from ...j1w3q/test.jpg')['dirname']. Array dereferencing was added in PHP 5.5.

You could fix this by suppling PATHINFO_DIRNAME to pathinfo().

(Untested)

$url = array_reverse(explode('/',pathinfo('domain.com/oranges/bananas/ccccKVj1w3q/test.jpg', PATHINFO_DIRNAME)));

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That's a bit special, then, since I tested it on PHP 5.4.3

 

Ah yes, you're right. Function array dereferencing was added in 5.4. 5.5 adds string dereferencing, eg:

echo 'this is a string'[3];

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