https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1037511 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/extracting-string#comment-1215000 <p>ah ha! I'll get there with the regex one day! <img src="https://www.webmaster-forums.net/misc/smileys/wink.png" title="Wink" alt="Wink" class="smiley-content" /></p> <p>Thanks mate!</p> Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:51:34 +0000 andy206uk comment 1215000 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/extracting-string#comment-1214991 <blockquote class="bb-quote-body"><p><strong>andy206uk;214983 wrote:</strong> Hi all,<br /> Does anyone know if there is a php function that will match a regular expression and give you the matched text as a variable? I thought preg_match would do the job but from what I can tell that just returns a count of how many times it matches? </p></blockquote> <p>It does return only the number of matches, but preg_match() will work. It takes an argument called <em>matches</em> that names a variable in which the function will store an array of successfully matched strings.</p> <p>This is the bizarre world of PHP, after all.</p> <blockquote class="bb-quote-body"><p><strong>andy206uk;214983 wrote:</strong> I've tried: \"+[a-zA-Z0-9]\" (one or more alpha numeric characters) but that didnt seem to work. </p></blockquote> <p>You've got the + on the wrong side. Try [incode]\"[a-zA-Z0-9]+\"[/incode]. <img src="https://www.webmaster-forums.net/misc/smileys/smile.png" title="Smiling" alt="Smiling" class="smiley-content" /></p> Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:58:34 +0000 Abhishek Reddy comment 1214991 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net