Find value between square brackets

Hello,

I am trying to find the value of the text between square brackets in my string

$str = "hell my name is [andrew]";
$find = preg_split("\[(*])\]", $str, null, 1);
$name = trim($find[1]);

Code (markup):

However this is not working :'(

Anyone got any ideas?

 

look at this post

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1421903

or use this function

function get_string_between($string, $start, $end){
        $string = " ".$string; 
       $ini = strpos($string,$start);
        if ($ini == 0) return "";
        $ini += strlen($start);
         $len = strpos($string,$end,$ini) - $ini;
        return substr($string,$ini,$len);
}

$str = "hell my name is [andrew]";
echo get_string_between($str, "[", "]");

PHP:

 

This could be resolved using regular expressions, we dont need to use dump coder technnics here. You should use preg_match, is more easy that way:

$str = "hell my name is [andrew]";
preg_match("/^(.*\[)(.*)(\])/", $str, $find);
$name = trim($find[2]);

Code (markup):

You should add validations, for example to handle when the string doesnt have any [].

I hope this helps.

Gustavo

 

Thanks, that did it