I'm looking for an way to parse a substring using PHP, and have come across preg_match however I can't seem to work out the rule that I need.
I am parsing a web page and need to grab a numeric value from the string, the string is like this
producturl.php?id=736375493?=tm
I need to be able to obtain this part of the string:
736375493
$matches = array();
preg_match('/id=([0-9]+)\?/', $url, $matches);
This is safe for if the format changes. slandau's answer won't work if you ever have any other numbers in the URL.
php.net/preg-match
<?php
$string = "producturl.php?id=736375493?=tm";
preg_match('~id=(\d+)~', $string, $m );
var_dump($m[1]); // $m[1] is your string
?>
$string = "producturl.php?id=736375493?=tm";
$number = preg_replace("/[^0-9]/", '', $string);
Unfortunately, you have a malformed url query string, so a regex technique is most appropriate. See what I mean.
There is no need for capture groups. Just match id= then forget those characters with \K, then isolate the following one or more digital characters.
Code (Demo)
$str = 'producturl.php?id=736375493?=tm';
echo preg_match('~id=\K\d+~', $str, $out) ? $out[0] : 'no match';
Output:
736375493
For completeness, there 8s another way to scan the formatted string and explicitly return an int-typed value. (Demo)
var_dump(
sscanf($str, '%*[^?]?id=%d')[0]
);
The %*[^?] means: greedily match one or more non-question mark characters, but do not capture the substring. The remainder of the format parameter matches the literal sequence ?id=, then greedily captures one or more numbers. The returned value will be cast as an integer because of the %d placeholder.
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According to PHP manual "If matches is provided, then it is filled with the results of search. $matches[0] will contain the text that matched the full pattern, $matches[1] will have the text that matched the first captured parenthesized subpattern, and so on."
How can I return a value from a string with only knowing the first few characters?
The string is dynamic and will always change whats inside, but the first four character will always be the same.
For example how could I return "Car" from this string "TmpsCar". The string will always have "Tmps" followed by something else.
From what I understand I can return using something like this
preg_match('/(Tmps+)/', $fieldName, $matches);
echo($matches[1]);
Should return "Car".
Your regex is flawed. Use this:
preg_match('/^Tmps(.+)$/', $fieldName, $matches);
echo($matches[1]);
$matches = []; // Initialize the matches array first
if (preg_match('/^Tmps(.+)/', $fieldName, $matches)) {
// if the regex matched the input string, echo the first captured group
echo($matches[1]);
}
Note that this task could easily be accomplished without regex at all (with better performance): See startsWith() and endsWith() functions in PHP.
"The string will always have "Tmps" followed by something else."
You don't need a regular expression, in that case.
$result = substr($fieldName, 4);
If the first four characters are always the same, just take the portion of the string after that.
An alternative way is using the explode function
$fieldName= "TmpsCar";
$matches = explode("Tmps", $fieldName);
if(isset($matches[1])){
echo $matches[1]; // return "Car"
}
Given that the text you are looking in, contains more than just a string, starting with Tmps, you might look for the \w+ pattern, which matches any "word" char.
This would result in such an regular expression:
/Tmps(\w+)/
and altogether in php
$text = "This TmpsCars is a test";
if (preg_match('/Tmps(\w+)/', $text, $m)) {
echo "Found:" . $m[1]; // this would return Cars
}
I am trying to search this coincidence in a string:
1. I need to take only numbers after the chracter '#' as long as this coincidence has not spaces, for example:
String = 'This is a test #VVC345RR, text, and more text 12345';
I want to take only this from my string -> 345.
My example:
$s = '\"access_token=103782364732640461|2. myemail#domain1.com ZmElnDTiZlkgXbT8e3 #DD234 4Jrw__.3600.1281891600-10000186237005';
$matches = array();
$s = preg_match('/#([0-9]+)/', $s, $matches);
print_r($matches);
This only works when I have one # and numbers.
Thanks!
Maybe:
#\D*\K(\d+)
Accomplishes what you want?
This will look for an #, any non-numbers, and then capture the numbers. The \K ignores the early match.
https://regex101.com/r/gNTccx/1/
I'm unclear what you mean by has not spaces, there are no spaces in the example string.
How can I check if a string has the format [group|any_title] and give me the title back?
[group|This is] -> This is
[group|just an] -> just an
[group|example] -> example
I would do that with explode and [group| as the delimiter and remove the last ]. If length (of explode) is > 0, then the string has the correct format.
But I think that is not quite a good way, isn't it?
So you want to check if a string matches a regex?
if(preg_match('/^\[group\|(.+)\]$/', $string, $m)) {
$title = $m[1];
}
If the group part is supposed to be dynamic as well:
if(preg_match('/^\[(.+)\|(.+)\]$/', $string, $m)) {
$group = $m[1];
$title = $m[2];
}
Use regular expression matching using PHP function preg_match.
You can use for example regexr.com to create and test a regular expression and when you're done, then implement it in your PHP script (replace the first parameter of preg_match with your regular expression):
$text = '[group|This is]';
// replace "pattern" with regular expression pattern
if (preg_match('/pattern/', $text, $matches)) {
// OK, you have parts of $text in $matches array
}
else {
// $text doesn't contain text in expected format
}
Specific regular expression pattern depends on how strictly you want to check your input string. It can be for example something like /^\[.+\|(.+)\]$/ or /\|([A-Za-z ]+)\]$/. First checks if string starts with [, ends with ] and contains any characters delimited by | in between. Second one just checks if string ends with | followed by upper and lower case alphabetic characters and spaces and finally ].
I know this might sound as really dummy question, but I'm trying to ensure that the provided string is of a number / decimal format to use it later on with PHP's number_format() function.
How would I do it - say someone is typing 15:00 into the text field - what regular expression and php function should I use to remove the colon from it and make it only return the valid characters.
preg_match() returns array - so I can't pass the result to number_format() unless I implode() it or something like this.
Your help would be very much appreciated.
Using is_numeric or intval is likely the best way to validate a number here, but to answer your question you could try using preg_replace instead. This example removes all non-numeric characters:
$output = preg_replace( '/[^0-9]/', '', $string );
To remove anything that is not a number:
$output = preg_replace('/[^0-9]/', '', $input);
Explanation:
[0-9] matches any number between 0 and 9 inclusively.
^ negates a [] pattern.
So, [^0-9] matches anything that is not a number, and since we're using preg_replace, they will be replaced by nothing '' (second argument of preg_replace).
This is the right answer
preg_match("/^[0-9]+$/", $yourstr);
This function return TRUE(1) if it matches or FALSE(0) if it doesn't
Quick Explanation :
'^' : means that it should begin with the following ( in our case is a range of digital numbers [0-9] )
( to avoid cases like ("abdjdf125") )
'+' : means there should be at least one digit
'$' : means after our pattern the string should end
( to avoid cases like ("125abdjdf") )
You can try that one:
$string = preg_replace('/[^0-9]/', '', $string);
Cheers.
Another way to get only the numbers in a regex string is as shown below:
$output = preg_replace("/\D+/", "", $input);
use built in php function is_numeric to check if the value is numeric.
You could do something like this if you want only whole numbers.
function make_whole($v){
$v = floor($v);
if(is_numeric($v)){
echo (int)$v;
// if you want only positive whole numbers
//echo (int)$v = abs($v);
}
}
Consider the string 12345aaa. I want to use preg_split() on it so only the numeric part of it will be returned (i.e. 12345). How would I write the regex for it ?
preg_split is not the function you want, you want preg_match as you don't want to split a string into parts, but to retrieve part of it. As I don't know more details, I can only provide a rough example of how to do it.
$reg = null;
//match the first set of 1 or more numbers
if ( preg_match('/\d+/', $str, $reg) ){
$num = $reg[0];
}