On Thu, August 2, 2007 9:43 am, Don Don wrote:
> hi all, am trying to cut some texts from a serries of string values
> e.g.
>
> "this is how we do (50 cents feat. the game)"
> "give it to me (nelly feat timerland)"
> "let me hold you (bow wow feat omarion)"
>
> i want to cut off the text between the comas and i've seen some
> examples
>
> <?
> $string = "Hello world, <b>this is a test</b>";
> preg_match('/<b>.*<\/b>/i', $string, $result);
> echo strip_tags($result[0]);
> ?>
>
> <?
> $string = "Hello world, <b>this is a test</b>";
> list($junk, $good) = split('<b>', $string);
> list($good, $junk) = split('</b>', $good);
> echo $good;
> ?>
>
> but they wont work with comas
Those are not comas, or even commas, but parentheses.
Parentheses have a specific meaning in PCRE.
http://php.net/pcre
If you want a literal parenthesis in your pattern, you need to escape it.
Try this:
preg_match('|^(.*)\\((.*)\\)$', $string, $parts);
echo "<pre>"; var_dump($parts); echo "</pre>";
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Yeah, I get a buck. So?
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