How to obtain hours and minutes from a string of data?

Question

I want to write a regex to obtain 06:00 and 06:59 out of this is the string:

06:00 Pizza Hut24 06:59

I am not able to build the proper regex! This is my regex so far but it is considering 24 in Hut24 as a part of the result but it shouldn't:

(?P<start_time>\d{2}:\d{2})\s+([a-zA-Z\s]*)(?P<end_time>\d{2}:\d{2})?

Answer 1

If you want to find all the occurrences, use preg_match_all:

$string = '06:00 Pizza Hut24 06:59';
preg_match_all('/\d{2}:\d{2}/', $string, $found);
var_dump($found);

This will give

array(1) {
    [0] => array(2) {
        [0]=> string(5) "06:00"
        [1]=> string(5) "06:59"
    }
} 

So you started off well, just had to use the right function.