I want to extract all strings between two characters (parentheses).
$string = "blah blah blah (blorp) blah blah (bloop) blah blah (bam)";
Desired output:
['blorp', 'bloop', 'bam']
I don't need any of the blah blahs, just everything within parenthesis.
You can do this with a regular expression:
$string = "blah blah blah (blorp) blah blah (bloop) blah blah (bam)";
preg_match_all("/\((.*?)\)/", $string, $result_array);
print_r( $result_array[1] ); // $result_array[0] contains the matches with the parens
This would output:
Array
(
[0] => blorp
[1] => bloop
[2] => bam
)
My regular expression uses a non-greedy selector: (.*?)
which means it will grab as "little" as possible. This keeps it from eating up all the )
and grabbing everything between the opening (
and the closing )
how ever many words away.