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PHP substr - extract numbers from string

I need to extract the highlighted numbers from each line in a CSV file.

Currently I am looping though the lines & splitting the line on the / character as this only appears once in each row, but how do I remove everything around these numbers so I am left with:

9/10

10/11

11/12

...

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Solution

  • If you want to only get the numbers, you could do a preg_match

    $re = '/(\d+\/\d+)/s';
$str = 'dfsadsfadsfads~~9/10~~lfkjdskfds';

preg_match($re, $str, $matches);

    but if you are able to get the entire doc as a single string, you could do a preg_match_all

    $re = '/(\d+\/\d+)/s';
$str = 'dfsadsfadsfads~~9/10~~lfkjdskfds\ndfsadsfadsfads~~9/10~~lfkjdskfds\n';

preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0);

    then loop on the $matches