I need some help with extracting 2 pieces of information from the following string:
viewed MUI slideshow (00:01:45)
I need the MUI and the time, without the parentheses. viewed and slideshow will always be present. The capital-lettered word can be anywhere from 2 to 6 letters in length. The time is always in the same format.
The extracted time will be totalled up and averaged for each of the capitalized words.
The following sniplet gives you what you want:
$str = 'viewed MUI slideshow (00:01:45)';
$r = '/viewed\ ([A-Z]{2,6})\ slideshow\ \((\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2})\)/';
if(preg_match($r, $str, $match)) {
// Do something
// $match[1] = MUI
// $match[2] = 00:01:45
}