PHP : Extract part of a string starting from the middle
Extracting part of the string is a fairly common task in programming and sometimes it can be a bit challenging to extract string starting from a middle of a larger string.
To illustrate the problem here. Let say your :
Problem :
You have a string that looks like this :
expires Friday, December 23, 2014 @ 11:59pm
and you want to final string result to be like :
Friday, December 23, 2014
Solutions :
First solution :
Use substr(), strlen() and strpos() functions
$string = "expires Friday, December 23, 2014 @ 11:59pm";
$final = substr($string, 14, strpos($string, '@') - strlen($string));
Second solution :
Which is more efficient, but less simpler to grasp for those not familiar with regular expression
$string = "expires Friday, December 23, 2014 @ 11:59pm";
$final = preg_replace('/expires\s*(.*?)@/', '\1', $string);
By Adam Ng
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