Re: i need help

["Peter 'iridium' Waller" <iridium@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jordi Canals wrote:
> Student wrote:
>
> > I want to trim the following text
> >
> > [i:abcdef]
> Hi,
>
> You can do:
>
> $data = '[i:something]';
> $array_data = explode(':',$data);
>
> and you will have:
> '[i' in $array_data[0]
> 'something]' in $array_data[1]
>
> If i understod corretly, you want to get only something, so you need 
> $array_data[1]. To take off brackets, just use str_replace();
>
> Hoppe this helps,
> Jordi.

Or, better, you can do :

preg_match( "/^\\[i\\:(.*)\\]\$/", "[i:something]", $matches );
$matches[1] will contain "something".

Peter.

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