Lets say we have these 4 strings:
string1 = "Hello my name is 'George' and im fine";string2 = "Hello my name is 'Mary' and im fine";string3 = "Hello my name is 'Peter' and im fime";string4 = "Hello my name is 'Kate' and im fine";How can we extract only the parts of the strings that contains a name in '' ?
Thanks in advance!
you should probably use regular expressions:
preg_match("/'(.+?)'/", $string, $matches);
print_r($matches);
See more on http://php.net/preg_match and http://lt.php.net/preg_match_all
You can use the explode function to split the string into an array based on a delimiter in you particular case, the apostrophe would work to delimit the string so that the following code would yield your answer:
$tokens= explode("'", "Hello my name is 'Kate' and im fine");
//The value you require is now found in $tokens[1];
echo $tockens[1];
Alternatively you could use the preg_match to store regular expression matches against particular groups in the regular expresion:
$pattern = "Hello my name is '(.*)' and im fine";
preg_match ($pattern , "Hello my name is 'Kate' and im fine", $matches)
//The value you require is now found in $matches[1];
echo $matches[1];
$string1 = "Hello my name is 'George' and im fine";
preg_match_all("/\'(.*)\'/",$string1,$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER);
echo $matches[0][1];
Above will match the string of any length between the single quotes. If you wish to match a single word with single quotes '\w+' in place of '.*' will also do.
